作者
David Kealy, Geoff Goodman, Brian Rasmussen, Rene Weideman, John S Ogrodniczuk
发表日期
2017/1
期刊
Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment
卷号
8
期号
1
页码范围
35
出版商
Educational Publishing Foundation
简介
This study used Q methodology to explore clinicians’ perspectives regarding optimal psychotherapy process in the treatment of pathological narcissism, a syndrome of impaired self-regulation. Participants were 34 psychotherapists of various disciplines and theoretical orientations who reviewed 3 clinical vignettes portraying hypothetical cases of grandiose narcissism, vulnerable narcissism, and panic disorder without pathological narcissism. Participants then used the Psychotherapy Process Q set, a 100-item Q-sort instrument, to indicate their views regarding optimal therapy process for each hypothetical case. By-person principal components analysis with varimax rotation was conducted on all 102 Q-sorts, revealing 4 components representing clinicians’ perspectives on ideal therapy processes for narcissistic and non-narcissistic patients. These perspectives were then analyzed regarding their relationship to …
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