ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on assumptions: Adults of the 1990’s would have experienced a previous major loss;Adults of the 1990’s probably will have more vulnerable personalities. Vulnerable personalities are defined as those persons having narcissistic or borderline characteristics. Affect for vulnerable personalities having narcissistic or borderline personality structures usually includes a need for love, boredom, anger, disgust, estrangement, and emptiness. Gently confronting the splitting processes, reality alterations, denial, devaluation, and working through the projective identifications of the client can be therapeutic for vulnerable personalities. The symbiotic phase illustrates the omnipotent fusion with the representation of the mother and is characterized by echo phenomenon in the mutual cueing dialogue between the mother and child. The Narcissistic personality is characterized by a lack of empathy and sees the world as an extension of self. The Narcissistic personality has difficulty attaching with another as different form self, thus, manipulation tends to characterize the relationship.
