title: Phenomenology in need of treatment: commentary for the special series "Narcissistic personality disorder--new perspectives on diagnosis and treatment".
abstract: Comments on the articles by A. E. Skodol et al. (see record 2013-24395-001), E. Ronningstam (see record 2014-42878-005), D. Diamond et al. (see record 2014-42878-004), and A. L. Pincus et al. (see record 2014-01439-001). Good delineation of the phenomenology of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is necessary but insufficient for informing us on what to do clinically. Perry suspects that we will see reams of publications comparing Section III and II diagnoses with various external measures and possibly experimental procedures. We will learn some important things, along with many facts without actionable consequences. However, because NPD does not show many differential relationships to particular functional measures, I believe that treatment studies will likely be the most informative.
authors.affiliation: McGill University.
authors.forename: J Christopher
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Perry
mesh_terms: D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009289:Narcissism; D009769:Object Attachment; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012649:Self Concept; D012927:Social Control, Informal; D056345:Theory of Mind