What are the treatments for narcissistic personality disorder?

What are the treatments for narcissistic personality disorder?

Rhoda Hahn (Psychiatrist) gives expert video advice on: What are the signs of narcissistic personality disorder?; What are the causes of narcissistic personality disorder?; What are the treatments for narcissistic personality disorder? and more...

Like so many other personality disorders in this cluster, in Cluster B: anti-social, borderline, histrionic and now narcissistic, a lot has been written about the psychotheraputic treatment of patients with narcissistic personality disorder. You know by virtue of the theraputic relationship, i.e. "You're the therapist and they're the patient", inherent in that relationship will be a lot of envy. So these patients will have difficulty in that theraputic relationship. They'll tend to de-value the therapist because of the envy involved in this situation and keeping them in treatment can be an issue and can be rather challenging. So, inside oriented psychotherapy, probably the treatment of choice. If the person meets criteria for a mood disorder, then you would treat that in the standard fashion as well.