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.

The Encyclopaedia caters for readers who require knowledge at a glance as well as those seeking a more detailed account. It includes numerous illuminating essays by distinguished contributors including: Howard Bacal, Hazel Barnes, Charles Brenner, Marcia Cavell, Morris Eagle, Peter Fonagy, Michael Eigen, James Grotstein, Thomas Ogden, Paul Roazen, Murray Stein, Allan Schore, Robert Stolorow and Robert Wallerstein.

Edited by recognized experts Michel Hersen and Johan Rosqvist, Handbook of Psychological Assessment, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment, Volume 1, Adults, is a thorough and practical reference for those working with adults. Bringing together the most current theories and evidence-based applications, chapters address issues of importance including ethics, medical issues, panic and agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder. Each chapter follows a structured format, opening with an overview of assessment, followed by case conceptualization, and, finally, recommended treatment.

1. Borderline patients and transference focused psychotherapy 2. factors that shape borderline personality disorder 3. treatment dilemmas arising from misdiagnoses 4. sadomasochism 5. narcissism and psychopathy 6. the impact of attachment status 7. schizoid states and paranoid regression 8. depression and suicidality 9. trauma, sexual pathology, and acting out 10. erotic transference and countertransference 11. using dream material 12. transference focused psychotherapy combined with parmacotherapy 13. transference focused psychotherapy in sequence with other modalities.

A basic text for the understanding of patients with pathological narcissism.

The book describes principles of TFP intervention and contains a wealth of practical guidelines on how to apply TFP to individual patients on a session-by-session basis. This groundbreaking treatment manual focuses on the tasks of the therapist and the sequence of responses by the patient for each phase of treatment.