Narcissistic Personality Disorders: Scientific principles and clinical practice

By Hans Wildraschek and Max van Damme

Narcissistic personality disorders are among the most complex, least understood, and most stigmatized mental disorders of our time. Between an exaggerated self-image and deep inner insecurity, between emotional coldness and fragile self-esteem regulation, a clinical picture unfolds that poses the highest demands both diagnostically and therapeutically. This book is dedicated to the challenge of understanding narcissistic experiences and behavior in a differentiated, scientifically sound, and practical way.
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it presents current diagnostic concepts, therapeutic approaches, and neurobiological foundations as well as social, ethical, and cultural perspectives. Grandios and vulnerable forms of narcissism are systematically distinguished and described in a comprehensible manner in terms of their clinical dynamics. A particular focus is placed on innovative developments in diagnostics, therapy, and research, including digitally supported methods, personalized interventions, and new findings from affective and social neuroscience.
The work is aimed at those affected, relatives, psychotherapists, specialists in psychiatry, psychologists, and anyone who wants to gain a deeper understanding of narcissistic personality dynamics-whether in everyday clinical practice, research, or counseling contexts. With scientific precision, clinical experience, and ethical sensitivity, this book opens up new approaches to understanding a multifaceted and highly topical disorder.
A standard work for anyone who wants to look behind the narcissistic fa ade-and is prepared to recognize the vulnerability within.
Bremen University Press has published over 5,000 specialist books in various languages since 2005.
1st edition 2025

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3690357977
• ISBN13: 9783690357975
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Bremen University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"