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    Hsbe Ii Lecture 8-"When The Bubble Busts: Narcissistic Vulnerability in Mid Life Crisis"

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    This document summarizes a lecture on narcissistic vulnerability in midlife crises. It discusses how maintaining self-esteem becomes difficult with age due to physiological and social stressors. Midlife is filled with occasions where one's self-concept and ego must reintegrate into changing life structures, such as downsizing, menopause, children leaving home, and economic instability. Examples of midlife crises discussed include dealing with declining abilities, empty nest syndrome as children leave home and redefining one's identity, and coming to terms with one's own mortality as friends and family face death. Treatment options mentioned include letting crises run their course or seeking support groups and family support.

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    This document summarizes a lecture on narcissistic vulnerability in midlife crises. It discusses how maintaining self-esteem becomes difficult with age due to physiological and social stressors. Midlife is filled with occasions where one's self-concept and ego must reintegrate into changing life structures, such as downsizing, menopause, children leaving home, and economic instability. Examples of midlife crises discussed include dealing with declining abilities, empty nest syndrome as children leave home and redefining one's identity, and coming to terms with one's own mortality as friends and family face death. Treatment options mentioned include letting crises run their course or seeking support groups and family support.

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    This document summarizes a lecture on narcissistic vulnerability in midlife crises. It discusses how maintaining self-esteem becomes difficult with age due to physiological and social stressors. Midlife is filled with occasions where one's self-concept and ego must reintegrate into changing life structures, such as downsizing, menopause, children leaving home, and economic instability. Examples of midlife crises discussed include dealing with declining abilities, empty nest syndrome as children leave home and redefining one's identity, and coming to terms with one's own mortality as friends and family face death. Treatment options mentioned include letting crises run their course or seeking support groups and family support.

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    HSBE II

    Lecture 8- When The Bubble Busts:


    Narcissistic Vulnerability in Mid Life
    Crisis
    Professor George
    Taylor
    Edna Goldstein
    Perhaps the most fundamental tasks of adult
    life is to maintain self esteem.
    May of the physiological and social stressors
    make the maintenance of self esteem a difficult
    task.
    Narcissism a focus on self
    Overly narcissistic people constantly turn attention
    to self often turning others away.
    They constantly need strokes to meet their
    self esteem needs.
    Healthy narcissism reflects positive reality
    testing as a source for self esteem
    Examples:
    Lover, mate, worker, parent, care giver.
    When the bubble bursts is addressing those
    situations when the individual has difficulty
    reintegrating his concept of self/ ego/self
    esteem into changing life structures. Middle
    adulthood is filled with those occasions.
    Downsizing, menopause, children leaving
    home, economic instability, midlife
    crises/death, etc.
    A. Mid life crises
    Why object constantly might be disintegrating
    sexual ability, physical health.
    Clinical implication assessing that this is
    situational versus biological (Bipolar)
    Treatment - none that I know of. Let it run its
    course!
    B. Empty Nest Syndrome
    Your self concept identity was so caught up in
    the definition as that your life structure is
    severely impaired clinical implications what
    do you do.
    Support groups, family
    C. Coming to grips with
    vulnerable/mortality
    Very real friends, acquaintance child, parents
    death? Divorce examples husband always
    strong diagnosed with chronic illness. Begins
    to demonstrate depression/anxiety serious
    enough to require psychological counseling
    and meds? You the wife, begin to feel the
    vulnerability because your world of the last 30
    is disintegrating. support groups support

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