Identifying and Understanding the Narcissistic Personality - Elsa F. Ronningstam

Identifying and Understanding the Narcissistic Personality

Buch | Hardcover
256 Seiten
2005
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-514873-2 (ISBN)
59,95 inkl. MwSt
Presents a review of narcissistic personality disorder explaining the range from personality trait to full-blown disorder. Narcissists succeed because they can articulate a vision and make others follow. This book shows the inner life of narcissists and the internal conflicts between self-confidence, arrogance, shame, and insecurity.
Narcissists have been much maligned, but according to clinicians who study personality, there are many productive narcissists who succeed spectacularly well in life because they can articulate a vision and make others follow. Elsa Ronningstam, who has been studying and treating narcissists for 29 years, presents a balanced, comprehensive, and up-to-date review of our understanding of narcissistic personality disorder, explaining the range from personality trait, which can be productive, to full-blown disorder, which can be highly destructive. Through fascinating case histories, Ronningstam shows us the inner life of narcissists, the tug of war that exists within them between self-confidence and arrogance on the one hand and painful shame and insecurity on the other. It is the first integrated clinical and empirical guide to assist clinicians in their work with narcissistic patients.

Elsa Ronningstam, Ph.D., has been studying narcissism and treating people with narcissistic disorders for nearly 25 years. Her research contributions to the understanding of NPD appear in such journals as The American Journal of Psychiatry, The Harvard Review of Psychiatry and The Journal of Personality Disorders. She is respected both in the United States and internationally as an author, instructor and clinician. Dr Ronningstam is currently an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Clinical Psychologist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, USA.

1. From myth to personality disorder ; 2. A normal asset with cultural differences ; 3. The origins and scope of narcissistic personality disorder ; 4. Identifying pathological narcissism ; 5. Differentiating pathological narcissism ; 6. Asset or disruption? Narcissism in the workplace ; 7. My way or no way? Narcissism and suicide ; 8. Correction or corrosion? Changes in pathological narcissism ; EPILOGUE

Erscheint lt. Verlag 12.5.2005
Zusatzinfo 1 table
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 162 x 243 mm
Gewicht 499 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Klinische Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10 0-19-514873-8 / 0195148738
ISBN-13 978-0-19-514873-2 / 9780195148732
Zustand Neuware
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
Information • Energie • Materie

von Ori Wolff

Buch | Softcover (2015)
Lehmanns Media (Verlag)
29,95