Enmeshment Types: Narcissist’s, Codependent’s, Borderline’s (Conference on Addiction Psychiatry)
Channel: Prof. Sam Vaknin
Date: 16/08/2023

Portuguese subtitled videos: https://www.youtube.com/@narcisismocommirna

Video presentation to the 3rd World Conference on Addiction Psychiatry, Paris, October 16-17, 2023.

Enmeshment, engulfment, merger, fusion, symbiosis

Narcissist

Recreation of symbiotic phase in dual mothership

Instrumentalized (leads to separation-individuation)

Temporary but stable

Object inconstancy, separation insecurity (abandonment anxiety) resolved via introjection

Borderline

Separation insecurity (abandonment anxiety) leads to clinging

Engulfment anxiety leads to approach-avoidance repetition compulsion

Instrumentalized (leads to external regulation)

Introject inconstancy

Codependent

Control from the Bottom to allay separation insecurity (abandonment anxiety)

Instrumentalized (renders life meaningful)

Object inconstancy, separation insecurity (abandonment anxiety) lead to clinging

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