The Church: Knowledge Friday w/ Diana Diamond, PhD : ‘… Pathological Narcissism’, 12.5th / Postponed

This Event Postponed as of November 19th, 2025.

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KNOWLEDGE FRIDAY

with DIANA DIAMOND, PhD

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5th, 2025
6 PM

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TICKETS:

General Ticket: $10

Member Ticket: FREE, RSVP REQUIRED

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Diana Diamond is a preeminent expert on personality disorders, attachment, and narcissism. Join us for the opportunity to gain invaluable knowledge from a distinguished member of our community as she discusses narcissism as a clinical and social phenomenon. Dr. Diamond will reveal the impetus for her latest book, Treating Pathological Narcissism With Transference-Focused Psychotherapy. Cultural representations from art, literature, and film will be used to illustrate the universal fascination with narcissism. After the discussion there will be a lively Q&A.

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The discussion will illuminate the special challenges of treating individuals with narcissistic disorders who retreat from reality into compensatory grandiosity, thereby compromising their lives and relationships. She will also discuss how to recognize when narcissistic traits become pathological and require treatment, and how practitioners can engage and connect more deeply with patients suffering from pathological narcissism. The ramifications of pathological narcissism in political and organizational life and relationship between collective and individual narcissism will also be discussed.

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DIANA DIAMOND, Ph.D.

Dr. Diamond is a psychologist and psychoanalyst who is also a professor, researcher, and author. She is a Professor Emerita in the doctoral program in clinical psychology at the City University of New York and Senior Fellow at the Personality Disorders Institute at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical College, where, with her colleagues, she helped to develop Transference Focused Psychotherapy, an evidence-based psychodynamic treatment that is taught and practiced internationally. She is also on the faculty of New York University’s postdoctoral program in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and Society. She has published extensively on personality disorders, narcissism, attachment, and sexuality and the application of psychoanalytic concepts to understanding narrative and symbolism in cinema. She has a private practice in New York City and Sag Harbor and is on the board of the Sag Harbor Cinema and the co-chair of their Lighthouse project a year-round film and discussion series that illuminates mental health awareness, advocacy, and action.

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The Church was established in 2019 by artists Eric Fischl and April Gornik. Housed in a deconsecrated 19th-century church, its doors were opened in April 2021. Our mission is to foster creativity and to honor the living history of Sag Harbor as a maker village. The East End represents an exceptional artistic legacy, spanning the practices of indigenous art of several centuries ago, Abstract Expressionists of the mid-20th century, and the many celebrated writers, makers, musicians, and visual artists of the recent past and current moment. Core programming includes visual art exhibitions, concerts and events, educational programming, workshops, lectures, and an artist’s residency.