Understanding and Treating Patients with Pathological Narcissism

The course will focus on pathological narcissism, including narcissistic personality disorder, and it will review the history of the concept and psychoanalytic theories of pathological narcissism.

This field is required.
This field is required.
This field is required.

10 Sessions on Wednesdays: Feb. 11, 18, 25, 2026; Mar. 4, 11, 18, 25, 2026; Apr. 8, 15, 22, 2026
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 PM EST

All courses will take place online. Seminar sessions are not recorded
Registration Deadline: February 9, 2026

Continuing Education credits are not offered for this course.

Registrants are expected to be able to attend all sessions in their entirety. Should your availability change, please contact the BPSI Team (team@bpsi.org) to remove your course registration and allow other interested participants to attend.

 

Understanding and Treating Patients with Pathological Narcissism 

The course will focus on pathological narcissism, including narcissistic personality disorder, and it will review the history of the concept and psychoanalytic theories of pathological narcissism. Integrating theory, clinical experience, and empirical evidence, the course will discuss different manifestations of pathological narcissism, effects of narcissism on co-morbid conditions as well as developmental factors, longitudinal course, and psychological mechanisms associated with pathological narcissism. The participants will learn about risk factors, dynamics, unique characteristics, and interventions for suicidality in patients with pathological narcissism. The course will review typical challenges in treatments and relational dynamics of stalemates as well as effective strategies to address those. In addition to present various theoretical approaches to treatment, it will discuss effective and ineffective strategies to treatment and different treatment dilemmas such as capacity to form treatment alliance, capacity to grieve, use and misuse of dream analysis, and the capacity to learn from life experiences.


Instructors

Igor Weinberg, PhD

Igor Weinberg, Ph.D., is a post-seminar (year 6) adult candidate member of BPSI and an ATP graduate; he is an Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Associate Psychologist at McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Weinberg published seminal articles on narcissistic personality disorder and its treatment. He maintains private practice in Belmont, MA


Open to Licensed Clinicians & Clinicians on the Path to Licensure. 

Scholarships are available for BPSI programs.

FEE:

$375 Course Fee
$50 Early Career Clinicians, Residents and Students
$350 Early Bird (available until 02/02/2026)  Use Code at Checkout: EB2026PN

The fee is waived for BPSI Members, Trainees, and Partners. Scholarships are available upon request.

 

Explorations in Mind: Community Education at BPSI is made possible by the generous support of BPSI Members and friends. To make a gift to BPSI, contact Carole Nathan (cnathan@bpsi.org or 617-266-0953 x101),
go to www.bpsi.org, or send mail to BPSI, 141 Herrick Road, Newton Centre, MA 02459.

 
Program Administrator
Jackson Doty: jdoty@bpsi.org

Program Chairs
Natasha Lifton, PhD: natashalifton@gmail.com
Linda Emanuel, MD, PhD: l-emanuel@northwestern.edu
 
 
Event Cancellation Policies & Procedures
Any program participant requesting their individual program registration be canceled, must submit their request in writing via email to Jackson Doty at jdoty@bpsi.org. For fee-based events, a request for cancellation (and refund using the original form of payment) must be received no later than 48 hours in advance of the event. Requests received later than 48 hours prior to the event will not be processed or accepted. All approved refunds are subject to a $10.00 administrative fee. If BPSI cancels an event, all registrants will receive a full refund of fees paid (no administration charge) no later than two business days following the scheduled date of the event, using the original form of payment.
 
Grievance Policy
Please address any questions or concerns about your experience at this or any program or event you have attended at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute to the Program Chair(s), via the Senior Administrator/Continuing Education Administrator, BPSI, 141 Herrick Road, Newton Centre, MA 02459; team@bpsi.org; 617.266.0953.
 
The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Inc., 141 Herrick Road, Newton Centre, MA 02459, does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, age, sexual orientation, national origin or handicap in the admissions to or administration of its educational programs, scholarship programs or employment.