Essential papers on narcissism

Includes indexes.

Bibliography: p. [467]-468.

On narcissism: an introduction / Sigmund Freud -- Pathologic forms of self-esteem regulation / Annie Reich -- Forms and transformations of narcissism / Heinz Kohut -- Narcissism: the term and the concept / Sydney E. Pulver -- Narcissism / Arnold M. Cooper -- Self relations, object relations, and pathological narcissism / Marjorie Taggart White -- Disorders of the self and their treatment: an outline / Heinz Kohut and Ernest S. Wolf -- Toward a functional definition of narcissism / Robert D. Stolorow -- Factors in the psychoanalytic treatment of narcissistic personalities / Otto F. Kernberg -- Further contributions to the treatment of narcissistic personalities / Otto F. Kernberg -- A narcissistic defence against affects and the illusion of self-sufficiency / Arnold H. Modell -- Theory of narcissism: an object-relations perspective / Arnold Rothstein -- Depression and grandiosity as related forms of narcissistic disturbances / Alice Miller -- Shame, ideal self, and narcissism / Andrew P. Morrison -- Some narcissistic personality types / Ben Bursten -- Narcissistic personalities and borderline conditions: a differential diagnosis / W.W. Meissner -- Mirror and the mask: on narcissism and psychoanalytic growth / Philip M. Bromberg.

Narcissism has recently been the focus of debate among professionals, in large part due to the controversies surrounding the world of Heinz Kohut and Otto Kernberg. Yet much has been written about narcissism throughout the history of psychoanalysis and this carefully selected collection brings together the essential work on narcissism.
The book first puts forth the major theoretical formulations - self-psychology, object relations, psychodynamics - and then explores diagnostic and therapeutic applications. The book offers landmark classic and contemporary contributions by authors such as Annie Reich, Heinz Kohut, Otto Kernberg, Alice Miller, Arnold Modell, and many others.