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Alliance Building and Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2012
Building a therapeutic alliance with a patient with pathological narcissism or narcissistic personality disorder is a challenging process. A combined alliance building and diagnostic strategy is outlined that promotes patients’ motivation and active engagement in identifying their own problems.
Elsa Ronningstam
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Overview: narcissistic personality disorder

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1982
The authors trace the evolution of narcissistic personality disorder as a nosological entity in a critical survey of the literature, considering and comparing differing theoretical viewpoints regarding the genesis of this disorder. They review its various descriptions, including the one in DSM-III, and develop a composite picture of the syndrome.
S, Akhtar, J A, Thomson
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Narcissistic personality disorder.

Personality and Mental Health, 2008
Abstract The clinical concept of a narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and the notion of pathological narcissism were based until recently on psychoanalytic theory. Recent observations of such patients have contributed to a growing database recognizing the complexity of narcissistic pathology and its various characterological and ...
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Journal of Psychiatric Practice, 2011
Narcissistic traits and narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) present specific diagnostic challenges. While they are often readily and straightforwardly identified, their presentation in some patients and the reasons for which such patients seek treatment may conceal significant narcissistic pathology.
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An update on narcissistic personality disorder

Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 2013
This article will discuss the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) 5 proposal for narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), and highlight some of the advantages of introducing a dual diagnostic approach that includes a dimensional conceptualization for identifying and diagnosing pathological narcissism and NPD, in addition to ...
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The Etiology of Narcissistic Personality Disorder

The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 1998
This paper presents a view of the etiology of narcissistic personality disorder which, while not new, is at variance with the commonly held position that this disorder is the outcome of the insufficient gratification of the normal narcissistic needs of infancy and childhood.
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder

1992
The “Little Prince,” as he came to be known in supervision, was a “special” person who felt he was in danger of losing this status. He alternated between insisting on his need for (indeed, his right to) perfection in his life and immediate gratification, and his distaste with this in himself.
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!, 2016
Lucille Cichminski, Tamara L. Bellomo
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder

2006
Campbell, W. Keith, Baumeister, Roy F.
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Emotional features of narcissistic personality disorder

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1985
On the basis of the existing data and his own clinical study, the author provides an overall systematization of emotional features of narcissistic personality disorder. The division of narcissistic emotions into primary and secondary, positive and negative, is ultimately determined by the internal (two-level) personality structure and the success or ...
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