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Diana Diamond is a pre-eminent expert on personality disorders, attachment, and narcissism. Join us for the opportunity to gain the invaluable knowledge of one of our distinguished community members as she discusses the concept of narcissism as a clinical and social phenomenon. Dr. Diamond will discuss the impetus for her latest book Treating Pathological Narcissism with Transference-Focused Psychotherapy. The discussion will illuminate the special challenges of treating individuals with narcissistic traits or narcissistic personality disorder who retreat from reality into compensatory grandiosity, thereby compromising their lives and relationships. She will also discuss how to recognize when narcissistic traits become pathological and require treatment, and how practitioners can engage and connect more deeply with patients suffering from pathological narcissism. After the discussion, there will be a lively Q&A.
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DIANA is a psychologist and psychoanalyst who is also a professor, researcher, and author. She is a Professor Emerita in the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at the City University of New York and Senior Fellow at the Personality Disorders Institute at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical College where with her colleagues she helped to develop Transference Focused Psychotherapy, an evidence-based psychodynamic treatment that is taught and practiced internationally. She is also on the faculty of New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and Society. She has published extensively on personality disorders, narcissism, attachment and sexuality, and the application of psychoanalytic concepts to understanding narrative and symbolism in cinema. She has a private practice in New York City and Sag Harbor and is on the board of the Sag Harbor Cinema.