Schema Therapy for Pathological Narcissism

The volume outlines a therapeutic program that allows a different treatment with respect to the different modes of grandiose and vulnerable expression of pathological narcissism through Schema Therapy, and presents suggestions, examples of interviews, and cards with outlines for the clinical interview, diagnostic imaging and the description of intervention techniques.

The book provides the reader with an overview of the changes that, over time, have affected the constructs of narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder and describes the main state and trait patterns that characterize the current scientific landscape with a look to the future and to those integrative models that seek to build a bridge between the two perspectives.

It illustrates the Schema Therapy model from its origins to the most recent developments and shows the assessment of the narcissistic patient through the lens of Schema Therapy, giving ample space to the formulation and conceptualization of the case as well as to the tools available to the clinician to deepen the patient’s assessment.

Next it deals with the treatment of the narcissistic patient and the therapeutic relationship. The reader will find numerous examples that can guide him/her in dealing with the different therapeutic phases and shape the relationship in line with the principles of limited reparenting.