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This 2020 article reviews studies on parenting, attachment, and empathy in people with pathological narcissism and proposes using mentalization-based treatment (MBT) as a main therapy. The authors say problems with mentalization — understanding one’s own and others’ thoughts and feelings — are central to their model. They describe core MBT…
Transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) is a psychodynamic treatment with research support for borderline personality disorder (BPD). The authors describe an adapted form called TFP-N for people with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) or narcissistic traits. TFP-N keeps core elements like a treatment contract and an interpretive process to identify and change harmful…
This systematic review looked at studies that followed people with borderline personality disorder after they finished dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). The authors found 10 articles from 7 primary studies and reported that benefits of DBT generally lasted through at least 1 year and, in some reports, up to 2 years…
