Main description:

Filling a crucial gap in the clinical literature, this book provides a contemporary view of pathological narcissism and presents an innovative treatment approach. The preeminent authors explore the special challenges of treating patients--with narcissistic traits or narcissistic personality disorder--who retreat from reality into narcissistic grandiosity, thereby compromising their lives and relationships. Assessment procedures and therapeutic strategies have been adapted from transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP), a manualized, evidence-based treatment for borderline personality disorder. Rich case material illustrates how TFP-N enables the clinician to engage patients more deeply in therapy and help them overcome relationship and behavioral problems at different levels of severity. The volume integrates psychodynamic theory and research with findings from social cognition, attachment, and neurobiology.

Contents:

Preface
1. Treating Pathological Narcissism with Transference-Focused Psychotherapy: An Introduction
I. Conceptualizing Pathological Narcissism
2. Self-Functioning in Pathological Narcissism
3. Interpersonal Functioning in Pathological Narcissism
4. An Overview of TFP-N
II. Treating Pathological Narcissism
5. The Assessment and Diagnosis of Pathological Narcissism
6. The Treatment Contract and Frame
7. TFP-N Early Phases
8. TFP-N Later Phases
9. TFP-N for Patients with Combined Narcissistic and Borderline Pathology
III. Pathological Narcissism in Intimate Relationships and Society
10. Malignant Narcissism: Clinical and Social Aspects
11. Narcissistic Love Relations
12. Epilogue
References
Index