Kristina Hallett – Rewiring the Brain: Treatment Techniques for Obsessive Compulsive, Narcissistic, Antisocial, and Borderline Personality Disorders

Imagine working with clients with personality disorders.

What comes to mind?

Challenging? Is it overwhelming? Is it frustrating?

Is it possible to make each session feel more productive and that you are actually making progress? How can you help your client?

• More emotionally stable
• More empathetic
• More flexible in the way he/she thinks and reacts in trying situations
• Less reactive

It is possible if you develop the skills to help your client modify their personality disorders. You can learn how to use the defenses of the disorders to create lasting improvement. The treatment techniques taught in this recording are based on cutting-edge neuroscience. It is possible for your clients to learn to rewire their brain to live a more stable and productive life.

1. Select therapeutic methods for neural repair based on the neuroscience of implicit traits and temperamental characteristics of 5 personality disorders.
2. Teach clients with Antisocial Personality Disorder how to manage impulsivity and high-risk behavior through training of the “wise mind.”
3. Develop dialectical constructs to enhance awareness and motivation in narcissistic clients.
4. Incorporate techniques that help the Obsessive-Compulsive Personality identify and express emotion.
5. Determine how borderline clients should use journaling techniques to discover and work through implicit memories that create mood and behavioral instability.
6. Integrate tools from EMDR to help all clients move past obstacles posed by histories of trauma or abuse.

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The first part deals with the development of personality disorders.

• Biology and temperament
• Agency and a desire to be affiliated
• Anxiety and harm avoidance
• Interpersonal Neurobiology – The concept of neural repair and neural integration

Treatment strategies are part of the second part.

There is an anti social personality disorder.

• Anxiety and APD
  • Develop harm avoidance
  • Utilize active relaxation
  • Anxiety in disguise: Find anxiety and tame Anger with the anger diary
  • Anger escalator tools for anger management
• Depression and the Antisocial PD
  • The hidden emotion
  • Cost-benefit analysis of behaviors
  • Use HALT tips to modulate expression
• Interpersonal Relationship and APD
  • Turn agency into positive paths
  • Journaling to identify implicit memory to increase awareness
  • Train the “wise mind” for better self-control
  • Storytelling for attunement and empathy

I. There is a personality disorder.

• Anxiety and NPD
  • Diminish the intensity of harm avoidance
  • Teach appropriate assertiveness
  • Worry management strategies
  • Energy therapies and self-soothing
  • Dispute irrational fears of humiliation
• Depression and NPD
  • Increase agency
  • Accept responsibility for vicious circles of grandiosity and loss
  • Battle grandiosity by increasing achievement
  • Improving awareness of and attunement to others
  • Mindfulness techniques and cost-benefit analysis
• Interpersonal Relationships and NPD
  • Using desire for affiliation
  • Reframe indifference to others and motivate connection with dialectical constructs
  • Genuine contributions: The path to legitimate self-worth

I. Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is a personality disorder.

• Anxiety and OCPD
  • Breaking the rule of harm avoidance
  • Identify the conflict with inner values
  • CBT to change worry and rumination
  • Real self-focusing techniques to find feelings
  • Discharging anger – the underlying trigger of anxiety
  • Learning to tolerate anxiety of making mistakes
  • Breaking free from “technology slavery”
• Depression and OCPD
  • Increase positive agency
  • Change derogatory self-talk
  • Interrupt and dispute compulsive behavior
  • Prescribe fun!
• Interpersonal relationships and OCPD
  • Affiliation and anger
  • Mindfulness practices to increase attunement to others
  • ”I” statements and negotiation skills
  • Deflate resistance to increase self/other honesty
  • Systems therapy strategies
  • Eliminate passive aggression

I. IV. There is a personality disorder. There is a quest for connection.

• Anxiety and BPD
  • The forgetfulness of harm avoidance
  • Fill in skills deficits: Teach and practice conflict resolution skills
  • Ground techniques to increase emotional stability
  • Journaling techniques
• Depression and the BPD
  • The forgetfulness of agency
  • Interrupt self-injurious behavior
  • EMDR practices to loosen the grip of the past
  • Minimize catastrophic rumination w/CBT
• Interpersonal Relationships
  • Craving affiliation and its destructive impact
  • Improve therapeutic relationships
  • Relationship histories
  • Practice assertiveness vs aggression

There are limits to the research and treatment risks.

• RCT’s, efficacy studies and related research
• Thinking outside the box, while maintaining a scientific basis
• Tried and true treatment strategies

PESI is not associated with Marsha M. Linehan or her organizations.

Get it. Treatments for borderline personality disorder are available. The author. Kristina Hallett is from the area.

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