The use of narcissism as a motivational structure to resolve the problem of personal significance: implications for treatment of narcissism.
Shaw's article discusses universal existential despair and how we reorganize by a narcissistic motivational structure, which informs clinicians when working with less constructive or adaptable narcissistic motivational structures. Generally, within the self devaluing perceptions and behavior of despair are the seeds of an enlivening life force that the clinician can promote within a relational context. The relational psychotherapeutic experience transforms the rigid, maladaptive, self-defeating attempts motivated in dealing with various forms of despair into a more flexible, adaptable, organizing, and enlivening expression of the self.
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Faculty, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program, Psychoanalytic Foundation of Washington, DC, USA.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D007207:Individuation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D009289:Narcissism; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012649:Self Concept; D012933:Social Identification; D012938:Social Perception