Location: Osho Mevlana Center, Amsterdam
Hours: 49
Study Load/Credits: 5.5
Instructors: Vedanta Aspioti
Course Description:
In this course we explore issues of structure: psychopathology, narcissism, psychological defenses, tendencies and circuits of the personality; how to identify these traits in ourselves first and foremost and then in others. Having an overview of a client’s structure we can truly see the person in their entirety, which is a necessity to work with them in a profound and transformative way.
Course Goal:
The aim of the course is to give the students a working model of psychopathology, psychological structure and how to work with different structural tendencies in the process of therapy.
Learning Objectives
After completing this course the students will be able to:
1. Correlate different types of everyday narcissism with developmental phases of childhood
2. Describe different types of psychopathology, the basic wound and the core resources that are missing in each pathology
3. Indicate different types of psychological defenses
4. Apply interventions for different personality tendencies
5. Designate the relationship between psychopathology, superego formation and object and self- constancy
6. Integrate the knowledge of psychopathology, defenses and personality tendencies to gain a greater overview of the client’s psychological structure
Education Method:
Lecture/Theory, Exercise, Meditation, Group therapy process, Practice
Required literature:
Aspioti, Vedanta, Essential Psychotherapy 4th Year Study Guide, Unpublished, 2019
163 pages, 5 pages per hour pace, 33 hours
Optional Literature:
Lowen, Alexander, Narcissism: Denial of the True Self, Touchstone, NY, 1985
Lawson, Christine Ann, Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and Volatile Relationship, Rowan & Littlefield, 2004
Optional: Behary, Wendy, Disarming the Narcissist, New Harbinger Publications, 2013
Brown, Nina, Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-Up's Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents, New Harbinger Publications, 2020
Celani, David, The Treatment of the Borderline Patient: Applying Fairbairn's Object Relations Theory in the Clinical Setting, Intl Universities Pr Inc, 1993
Donaldson-Pressman, Stephanie and Pressman, Robert M., The Narcissistic Family: Diagnosis and Treatment, Jossey-Bass, 1997
McBride, Karyl, Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers, Atria Books, 2009
Moskovitz, Richard, Lost in the Mirror: An Inside Look at Borderline Personality Disorder, Taylor Trade Publishing, 2001
Testing (Summative): A written exam with short answer and essay questions on the material that is taught in Module 1 of the Fourth year of the Power of Light Training
Exam Duration: 2 hours