title: Introduction to the special series on "Narcissistic personality disorder--new perspectives on diagnosis and treatment".
abstract: The first aim for this Special Series on "Narcissistic personality disorder--new perspecitves on diagnosis and treatment" is to further the dimensional self-regulatory diagnostic approach for identifying NPD by integrating range of functioning, co-occurring grandiosity and vulnerability, compromised empathic ability, self-enhancing interpersonal strategies and relatedness, and overt and covert expressions of pathological narcissism. A second aim is to broaden the conceptualization of pathological narcissism by identifying it in terms of attachment and mentalization/reflective function. The third aim is to apply the combined dimensional and trait diagnostic approach to clinical practice, both diagnostic evaluation and treatment.
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School.
authors.forename: Elsa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ronningstam
mesh_terms: D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy