Table of Contents:
  • I: Theoretical foundations
  • Theoretical introduction
  • Narcissistic personality disorder
  • II: Devitalization : the unmirrored self (schizoid, schizotypal, and avoidant personality disorders)
  • Descriptive psychopathology and theoretical viewpoints : schizoid, schizotypal, and avoidant personality disorders
  • A self psychological viewpoint : schizoid, schizotypal, and avoidant personality disorders
  • III: Forestalling fragmentation (paranoid, obsessive-compulsive, and borderline personality disorders)
  • Descriptive psychopathology and theoretical viewpoints : paranoid, obsessive-compulsive, and borderline personality disorders
  • A self psychological viewpoint : paranoid, obsessive-compulsive, and borderline personality disorders
  • IV: Alternative pathways for preserving a cohesive self (dependent, histrionic, and antisocial personality disorders)
  • Descriptive psychopathology and theoretical viewpoints : dependent, histrionic, and antisocial personality disorders
  • A self psychological viewpoint : dependent, histrionic, and antisocial personality disorders
  • V: Other disorders of the self (depressive personality disorder, disorders of the self and somatic reactivity, and disavowal and the vertical split
  • Depressive personality disorder
  • Disorders of the self and somatic reactivity
  • Disavowal : the vertical split.