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AFUW-ACT Inc. Meeting Report

Topic: Understanding Personality Disorder

Speaker: Dr. Bruce Stevens

Dr Bruce A. Stevens is a Canberra Clinical and Forensic Psychology. He has a part-time faculty appointment at Charles Sturt University. He has written three books, the most recent is Mirror, Mirror: When self love affects a relationship (2001) about narcissism. His area of research is personality disorder and he has published refereed articles in journals such as Psychotherapy in Australia (2003) and Australiasian Journal of Psychotherapy (2002).
This presentation explored characteristic aspects of personality disorder – what psychoanalytic authors have called the Grandiose Self. This distortion of personality is highly relevant to understanding impossible relationships whether romantic, in a family or at work. Some practical tips were offered followed by a general discussion.