Paranoid Phenomena and Pathological Narcissism
Abstract
Through a review of the schools of psychoanalysis and developments in the understanding of narcissism and the self, the authors suggest that paranoid phenomena arise out of pathological narcissism. The roles of the ego-ideal, self-objects and deficits in the capacity for self-determination are all seen as having causal influence on the development of paranoid states.
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