TY  - JOUR
AB  - Four couple therapy first consultations involving clients with diagnosed narcissistic problems were examined. A sociologically enriched and broadened concept of narcissistic disorder was worked out based on Goffman's micro-sociology of the self. Conversation analytic methods were used to study in detail episodes in which clients resist to answer a therapist's question, block or dominate the development of the conversation's topic, or conspicuously display their interactional independence. These activities are interpreted as a pattern of controlling practices that were prompted by threats that the first couple therapy consultation imposes upon the clients' self-image. The results were discussed in the light of contemporary psychiatric discussions of narcissism; the authors suggest that beyond its conceptualization as a personality disorder, narcissism should be understood as a pattern of interactional practices. Copyright © 2021 Janusz, Bergmann, Matusiak and Perakyla.
DA  - 2020
DO  - 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.596842
LA  - eng
PY  - 2020
T2  - Frontiers in Psychology
TI  - Practices of Claiming Control and Independence in Couple Therapy With Narcissism
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29515575
Y2  - 2024-11-22T10:11:46
ER  -