Conversations on Gifted Trauma

Conversation 15: Giftedness, Personality Disorders & Paths to Wholeness


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In this episode, Jennifer Harvey Sallin talks with clinical psychologist Kael Cockcroft about the origins of personality disordering, what it's like when giftedness and personality disordering overlap, and therapeutic and personal paths to wholeness.

Personality disordering is about getting stuck in limited strategies for relating and surviving, due to restrictive emotional and relational environments as a child. Giftedness is about high intellectual and often emotional, creative and existential complexity. The combination of gifted complexity and structural personality rigidity make life particularly challenging for individuals in this overlap, but paths for change and thriving do exist, and Kael shares the healing wisdom earned from his extensive experience treating this population.

Jennifer and Kael also discuss the challenges of giftedness and narcissism that are particularly dominant in highly disruptive subcultures, for example in the tech world, and how we as individuals and the collective need to take agency in how we relate to and educate the world about intelligence, narcissism and what true, embodied and wise paths to individual and collective thriving are.

To learn more about Kael and his work, go to www.stormsedgetherapy.co.uk

To learn more about Jennifer and InterGifted, go to www.intergifted.com

If you're a therapist or coach who is interested in attending a professional training program with Kael and Jennifer on these themes, write to us at [email protected].

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