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Current Pediatric Research| Volume: 22
November 28-29, 2018 | Dubai, UAE
15th World Congress on
Pediatrics, Clinical Pediatrics and Nutrition
28th International Conference on
Nursing Practice
Joint Event
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Cold therapy for narcissistic Personality Disorder and depression
Sam Vaknin
Southern Federal University, Russia
Cold therapy is based on two premises: (1) That narcissistic
disorders are actually forms of complex post-traumatic
conditions; and (2) That narcissists are the outcomes of arrested
development and attachment dysfunctions. Consequently, Cold
therapy borrows techniques from child psychology and from
treatment modalities used to deal with PTSD.
Cold therapy consists of the re-traumatization of the narcissistic
client in a hostile, non-holding environment which resembles
the ambience of the original trauma. The adult patient
successfully tackles this second round of hurt and thus resolves
early childhood conflicts and achieves closure
rendering his nowmaladaptive narcissistic defenses redundant,
unnecessary, and obsolete.
Cold therapy makes use of proprietary techniques such as
erasure (suppressing the client’s speech and free expression
and gaining clinical information and insights from his reactions
to being so stifled). Other techniques include: grandiosity
reframing, guided imagery, negative iteration, other-scoring,
happiness map, mirroring, escalation, role play, assimilative
confabulation, hypervigilant referencing, and re-parenting.
Speaker Biography
SamVaknin is Visiting Professor of Psychology, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don,
Russia and Professor of Finance and Psychology in CIAPS, Author of Malignant Self-love:
Narcissism Revisited and other books about personality disorders.
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Sam Vaknin, Pediatrics and Clinical Pediatrics 2018
& Nursing Practice 2018, Volume 22
DOI: 10.4066/0971-9032-C2-006