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  • Title: Notes on the developmental pathogenesis of narcissistic personality disorder.
    Author: Rinsley DB.
    Journal: Psychiatr Clin North Am; 1989 Sep; 12(3):695-707. PubMed ID: 2678025.
    Abstract:
    Narcissistic personality disorder is considered here as a higher-order borderline personality disorder: Both share related pathogeneses in terms of impaired parent-child relationships. The author develops his view of these disorders as arising from impaired separation-individuation, drawing on both "classic" and object-relations concepts as expressed in the contributions of Mahler, Kernberg, Kohut, Gerald Adler, Masterson, and himself. Emphasis is placed on pre-Oedipal developmental arrest as fundamental to the separation-individuation failure that characterizes these cases.
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