Combining clinical diagnostic observations, advances in treatment, and empirical evidence, Disorders of Narcissism provides a comprehensive overview of psychotherapy with narcissistic disorders. The book probes such important subjects as transference and countertransference, the self-psychological perspective, an object-relations approach, and the treatment of narcissistic disorders in group and couples therapy.
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This book presents a highly informative, lucid, and clinically useful account of pathological self-absorption and its deleterious effects upon capacities for concern, love, work, and morality. Not only does it address individual psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, it also elucidates the treatment of narcissistic patients in intensive psychiatric milieu, group therapy, schema-focused therapy, and even couples therapy. (Akhtar, Salman, M.D. )
This single volume assembles the current thinking of the leading figures in the field. The combination of breadth and thorough discussions that are both scholarly and clinically relevant is unusual and refreshing. Reading this book is like being a privileged guest at a meeting of the people whose work is synonymous with the study of narcissism today. It is a must for anyone who treats, studies, or is interested in narcissistic pathology. (Robert Michels, M.D. )
This single volume assembles the current thinking of the leading figures in the field. The combination of breadth and thorough discussions that are both scholarly and clinically relevant is unusual and refreshing. Reading this book is like being a privileged guest at a meeting of the people whose work is synonymous with the study of narcissism today. It is a must for anyone who treats, studies, or is interested in narcissistic pathology. (Robert Michels, M.D. )
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Elsa F. Ronningstam, Ph.D., is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, The Psychosocial Research Center at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, and a Candidate at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. She is also Associate Clinical Psychologist at McLean Hospital and at Two Brattle Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Pathological narcissism has been the topic of heated discussion for a hundred years now. Freud, Kohut, Klein, Winnicott, Kernberg - have all contributed their point of view. Roningstam belongs in this august company as a major theoretician and practitioner. This book - an anthology of writings about this intractable and maddening phenomena - is both whole and partial. It is whole is that it provides a magnificent overview and an efficient launching pad to the understanding of narcissism. It is partial in that it presents only the views of the psychodynamic object relations school of psychology and largely ignores advances in other fields. But it is a great read and provides hope that treatment may finally be getting there and breaching the narcissistic barrier. Sam Vaknin, author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited".
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This first section presents the fundamental conceptualizations and understanding of narcissism and of its pathological conditions as they have developed and influenced recent clinical descriptions and empirical research. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pathological grandiose self, normal infantile narcissism, cal narcissism, infantile psychic trauma, selfobject matrix, narcissistic object relations, narcissistic patients, alexithymic patients, normal narcissism, anaclitic object choices, narcissistic children, narcissistic individuals, bipolar self, narcissistic pathology, superego precursors, moral adaptation, idealized parent imago, narcissistic personality inventory, superego pathology, narcissistic object choice, narcissistic persons, psychopathic persons, selfobject transferences, malignant narcissism, narcissistic personality disorder Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, American Psychiatric Association, International Universities Press, Jason Aronson, Hogarth Press, Disorders of Narcissism, American Psychiatric Press, Basic Books, Psychoanal Study Child, New Haven, Analytic Press, Compr Psychiatry, Arch Gen Psychiatry, Detached Self-Soother, The Analysis of the Self, Journal of Personality Disorders, Yale University Press, Abnorm Psychol, Lawrence Erlbaum, Other Works, Psychological Assessment, The Restoration of the Self, Von Rad, World Health Organization, Annual of Psychoanalysis New!
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This first section presents the fundamental conceptualizations and understanding of narcissism and of its pathological conditions as they have developed and influenced recent clinical descriptions and empirical research. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pathological grandiose self, normal infantile narcissism, cal narcissism, infantile psychic trauma, selfobject matrix, narcissistic object relations, narcissistic patients, alexithymic patients, normal narcissism, anaclitic object choices, narcissistic children, narcissistic individuals, bipolar self, narcissistic pathology, superego precursors, moral adaptation, idealized parent imago, narcissistic personality inventory, superego pathology, narcissistic object choice, narcissistic persons, psychopathic persons, selfobject transferences, malignant narcissism, narcissistic personality disorder Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, American Psychiatric Association, International Universities Press, Jason Aronson, Hogarth Press, Disorders of Narcissism, American Psychiatric Press, Basic Books, Psychoanal Study Child, New Haven, Analytic Press, Compr Psychiatry, Arch Gen Psychiatry, Detached Self-Soother, The Analysis of the Self, Journal of Personality Disorders, Yale University Press, Abnorm Psychol, Lawrence Erlbaum, Other Works, Psychological Assessment, The Restoration of the Self, Von Rad, World Health Organization, Annual of Psychoanalysis New!
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