Resource Tag: NARCISSISM

The authors discuss 2 bulimic adolescent girls who also met the criteria for narcissistic personality disorder. The literature for both disorders is reviewed & 3 areas of common dynamics are elucidated. Bulimia appears to be part of a constellation of symptoms. 16 refs.

This article describes 3 cases of suicide among the author’s clients who all possessed a strong narcissistic preoccupation. These cases are briefly described in the context of the author’s unsuccessful pathogenic ‘red cross nursing niceness’ stance and his shift to a new more successful and tougher approach known as ‘creative or therapeutic aggression’. No suicides […]

Feelings of emptiness are a central problem for patients suffering from narcissistic disorders and/or borderline personality dusturbances. In an attempt to avoid this feeling, these patients employ defences to preserve their fragmentary selves. Detachment, exhibitionism, excessive self-concern, self-isolation, negation of other’s humaneness, assumption of a false self & acting out are some common defenses. Feelings […]

Mean scores of different clinical groups are not comparable on the Ego Resiliency Scale. Persons with narcissistic pathology score high on this scale in an attempt to create a favorable social image.

The purposes of this study were: to elicit the clinical & biographical features of non-psychotic, female, repeated self-cutters; to attempt a detailed study of the patients’ mental state at the time of the act; to test a prediction that self-cutters exhibit a marked obsessional trait; and to examine the possible relationship between self mutilation, obsessionality […]