Narcissism

Psychoanalytic Clinicians and Researchers in Dialogue
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-93298-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: The International Psychoanalytical Association Current Challenges in Psychoanalysis

Narcissism: Psychoanalytic Clinicians and Researchers in Dialogue presents current research and practice on working psychoanalytically with narcissism.

The contributors discuss a broad spectrum of approaches for understanding narcissism, from cultural-theoretical and social perspectives to clinical psychoanalytic observations and conceptual clarifications of terms, and new interdisciplinary and extra-clinical psychoanalytic research. Part I deals with the social danger posed by the close, unconscious link between pathological narcissism and extreme destructiveness. Part II is devoted to insights gained from years of psychoanalysis and long-term psychoanalytic treatment with patients with narcissistic pathology. Part III discusses how psychoanalysis tries to meet contemporary cultural challenges, and this book concludes with three chapters devoted to the important issue of narcissism in adolescence and young adulthood.

This book will be essential reading for psychoanalysts in practice and in training.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stanicke, Erik

Leuzinger-Bohleber, Marianne

Hau, Stephan

Lerner, Rogerio

Lerner, Rogério

Gullestad, Siri Erika

Stänicke, Erik

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors

Series editor foreword

Silvia Flechner

Preface

Siri Erika Gullestad

Introduction

Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Stephan Hau, Rogério Lerner, Erik Stänicke & Siri Erika Gullestad

Part I: Narcissism in Society and Culture

Chapter 1. Pathological narcissism and large group regression

Otto Kernberg

Chapter 2. The Return of the Authoritarian: Narcissism and Destructiveness in Nationalistic Ideologies

Werner Bohleber

Chapter 3. Murderous narcissism in a terrorist act. A psychoanalytic perspective

Siri Erika Gullestad

Chapter 4. Putin is not the answer, but the question. On Neurotic Fears and Collective Narcissism: The Example of the new Russia

Gerd Koenen

Part II: Narcissism: Clinical Practice and Research

Chapter 5. Challenges in understanding narcissism in patients with autism spectrum disorder: Consequences for psychoanalytical work and research

Rogério Lerner et al

Chapter 6. Types of narcissism: A neuropsychoanalytic contribution

Mark Solms

Chapter 7. Diagnosis and evaluation of narcissism

Stephan Doering

Chapter 8. Therapeutic Approaches to Narcissism in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy

John F. Clarkin, Nicole Cain, Eve Caligor & Julia Sowislo

Chapter 9. Are personality disorders disease variants or (extreme) normal variants? – fragments of an ongoing debate

Stephan Hau

Part III: Confronting Contemporary Cultural Challenges

Chapter 10. Confronting modern Zeitgeist: Visions of psychoanalysis in life and mental health care

Erik Stänicke and Helene A. Nissen-Lie

Chapter 11. Transgender – a challenge for psychoanalysis

Siri Erika Gullestad

Chapter 12. Adolescence in a digital age – developmental challenges, risk behavior, and potential space

Line Indrevoll Staenicke

Chapter 13. Narcissism in “emerging adulthood”: Chances and risks

Inge Seiffge-Krenke

Chapter 14. Narcissism, trauma and depression. Clinical observations from the MODE study

Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber

Chapter 15. Changes in dreams in psychoanalyses of chronic depressed patients in a narcissistic psychic retreat. Clinical Research in the MODE Study

Tamara Fischmann, Gilles Ambresin & Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber

Über Autor(innen)

Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber is professor emeritus of psychoanalysis at the University of Kassel, Germany. She is former director of the Sigmund-Freud-Institut in Frankfurt am Main, a senior scientist at the University of Medicine in Mainz, a training and supervising analyst, and author of numerous books and articles. She is the recipient of awards including the 2016 Sigourney Award and the IPA’s Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award.

Stephan Hau, PhD, is a professor of clinical psychology in the Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Sweden. He is also a member of the Research Committee and a member of the Research Grants Subcommittee of the IPA, as well as a co-chair of the IPA’s RTP/Sandler Conference Subcommittee. He is the editor-in-chief of Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review and the author of numerous books and articles.

Rogério Lerner, PhD, is a professor at the Institute of Psychology and the Faculty of Medicine (Department of Psychiatry) of the University of São Paulo. He is also member of the Research Committee of IPA, co-Chair of Joseph Sandler Psychoanalytic Research Conference and Research Training Programme, and associate member of the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of São Paulo.

Erik Stänicke is professor of clinical psychology at the University of Oslo, Norway, and a training psychoanalyst. He is an experienced supervisor and teacher, and is the author of numerous books and articles.

Siri Erika Gullestad is professor emeritus of clinical psychology at the University of Oslo, Norway. She is a training and supervising psychoanalyst and was awarded the Sigourney Award in 2019. She is an experienced teacher and supervisor and is the author of numerous books and articles, including The Theory and Practice of Psychoanalytic Therapy: Listening for the Subtext (with Bjørn Killingmo, Routledge, 2020).