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Empathy in Narcissistic Personality Disorder: From Clinical and Empirical Perspectives

Empathy in Narcissistic Personality Disorder: From Clinical and Empirical Perspectives

Personal Disord. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2015 Apr 30. Published in final edited form as: Personal Disord. 2014 Jul; 5(3): 323–333. Published online 2014 Feb 10. doi: 10.1037/per0000061 PMCID: PMC4415495 NIHMSID: NIHMS683605 PMID: 24512457 Arielle Baskin-Sommers, Elizabeth Krusemark, and Elsa Ronningstam Author information Copyright and License information Disclaimer The publisher’s final edited version of this article is available at Personal Disord See other articles in PMC that cite the published article. Abstract Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is associated with an…

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Assessment Procedures for Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Assessment Procedures for Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Assessment. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2010 Mar 19. Published in final edited form as: Assessment. 2008 Dec; 15(4): 483–492. Published online 2008 Jun 11. doi:  10.1177/1073191108319022 PMCID: PMC2841972 NIHMSID: NIHMS171531 PMID: 18550845 A Comparison of the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire-4 and Best-Estimate Clinical Judgments Joshua D. Miller and W. Keith Campbell University of Georgia Paul A. Pilkonis and Jennifer Q. Morse University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Author information ► Copyright and License information ► Disclaimer The publisher’s final edited version…

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Reaching the Covert, Fragile Side of Patients: The Case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Reaching the Covert, Fragile Side of Patients: The Case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Giuseppe Nicolò, Antonino Carcione, Antonio Semerari, and Giancarlo Dimaggio Terzo Centro di Psicoterapia Cognitiva-Training School of Cognitive Psychotherapy, Rome   A multifaceted self allows selection of those sides that are most suited to a situation and an interpersonal context, thus improving adaptation. Patients suffering from personality disorders display a limited range of self-aspects, and their relationships are stereotyped and maladaptive. Another problem is that some of these sides scarcely reach consciousness and usually remain in the background. In the case…

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Fear and decision-making in narcissistic personality disorder: A link between psychoanalysis and neuroscience

Fear and decision-making in narcissistic personality disorder: A link between psychoanalysis and neuroscience

Elsa Ronningstam, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Arielle R. Baskin-Sommers, MS Arielle R. Baskin-Sommers, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; Author information ► Copyright and License information ► Disclaimer This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Abstract Linking psychoanalytic studies with neuroscience has proven increasingly productive for identifying and understanding personality functioning. This article focuses on pathological narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), with the aim…

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Empathy in Narcissistic Personality Disorder: From Clinical and Empirical Perspectives

Empathy in Narcissistic Personality Disorder: From Clinical and Empirical Perspectives

Personal Disord. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2015 Apr 30. Published in final edited form as: Personal Disord. 2014 Jul; 5(3): 323–333. Published online 2014 Feb 10. doi:  10.1037/per0000061 PMCID: PMC4415495 NIHMSID: NIHMS683605 Arielle Baskin-Sommers, Elizabeth Krusemark, and Elsa Ronningstam Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final edited version of this article is available at Personal Disord See other articles in PMC that cite the published article. Abstract Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is associated with an…

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Assessing Suicidal Youth With Antisocial, Borderline, or Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Assessing Suicidal Youth With Antisocial, Borderline, or Narcissistic Personality Disorder

  In Review Paul S Links, MD1, Brent Gould, MD2, Ruwan Ratnayake3     Objective: This paper has 3 objectives. First, we review the epidemiologic evidence for the association between suicidal behaviour and suicide in individuals diagnosed with anti- social, borderline, or narcissistic personality disorder. Second, we examine whether any potentially modifiable risk factors are associated with these diagnoses, based on existing empirical evidence. Last, we discuss clinical approaches to assessing youth with antisocial, borderline, or narcissistic personality disorder presenting…

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Attachment and Mentalization in Female Patients With Comorbid Narcissistic and Borderline Personality Disorder

Attachment and Mentalization in Female Patients With Comorbid Narcissistic and Borderline Personality Disorder

      Diana Diamond City University of New York and Weill Cornell Medical College Kenneth N. Levy Pennsylvania State University and Weill Cornell Medical College John F. Clarkin Weill Cornell Medical College Melitta Fischer-Kern Medical University of Vienna Nicole M. Cain Long Island University –  Brooklyn Stephan Doering Medical University of Vienna Susanne Hörz Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen Anna Buchheim University of Innsbruck   We investigated attachment representations and the capacity for mentalization in a sample of adult female borderline patients…

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Attachment and Mentalization in Female Patients With Comorbid Narcissistic and Borderline Personality Disorder

Attachment and Mentalization in Female Patients With Comorbid Narcissistic and Borderline Personality Disorder

    Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment © 2014 American Psychological Association 2014, Vol. 5, No. 4, 428 – 433   1949-2715/14/$12.00    http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/per0000065 Diana Diamond, City University of New York and Weill Cornell Medical College Kenneth N. Levy, Pennsylvania State University and Weill Cornell Medical College John F. Clarkin, Weill Cornell Medical College Melitta Fischer-Kern, Medical University of Vienna Nicole M. Cain, Long Island University –  Brooklyn Stephan Doering,  Medical University of Vienna Susanne Hörz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen Anna Buchheim,  University…

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