Understanding and Treating Pathological Narcissism - 9781433812347

Ogrodniczuk (psychotherapy, U. of British Columbia, Canada) provides 18 chapters meant to help mental health clinicians understand issues related to the psychotherapeutic treatment of pathological narcissism. Psychotherapists from the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia address the history of narcissism; its features, including interpersonal problems, affect regulation and mentalization, intrapsychic conflicts and defenses, suicide risk, and sex and race-ethnic differences in co-occurring disorders; diagnosis, subtypes, and assessment using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, and Pathological Narcissism Inventory; and treatment considerations, including countertransference issues, maintaining boundaries, transference-focused psychotherapy, Kohut's self psychology approach, short-term dynamic psychotherapy, schema therapy, and cognitive behavioral perspectives. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)