Talk Therapy Ineffective with Narcissistic Abuse
Narcissistic Abuse Awareness and Guidance with Randi Fine
Written by Randi Fine, Narcissistic Abuse Expert
Narcissistic Abuse Awareness and Guidance with Randi Fine
Talk therapy is ineffective with narcissistic abuse treatment because it works on the intellectual brain; on rational thought. While survivors may experience rational understanding of what they have endured, what they know intellectually is not what they feel emotionally.
Narcissistic abuse alters the brain on an unconscious level. Targets of this abuse, unaware that their perception is gradually being altered, believe that they are in control of their thoughts. Survivors of narcissistic abuse, believing the same, find it frustrating that while they consciously know what they've endured they can not reason their way out of their suffering.
As a professional coach dedicated to specialized narcissistic abuse recovery I hear the same frustration expressed over and over by clients who in desperation seek me out. Most everyone has first engaged the help of a licensed mental health professional, in some cases for several years, trusting that the person knew how to help them. Achieving no benefit and often feeling worse, many are angry about the incompetent treatment they received and hopeless that they will ever recover.
Working with clients both nationally and internationally, they all seem to have the same complaints.