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The concept of Narcissistic Personality Disorder–Three levels of analysis for interdisciplinary integration
In this paper, I distinguish three different levels for describing, and three corresponding ways for understanding, deficient empathy as the core of NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder). On the macro level, deficient empathy can be explained as disturbed interpersonal functioning, and is understo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9709503/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36465294 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.989171 |
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description | In this paper, I distinguish three different levels for describing, and three corresponding ways for understanding, deficient empathy as the core of NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder). On the macro level, deficient empathy can be explained as disturbed interpersonal functioning, and is understood as lack of recognition. On the meso-level, deficient empathy can be described as psychic disintegration, and can be understood specifically in its dissocial aspects. Psychic disintegration in NPD correlates with somatic changes, i.e., dysfunctional affective empathy and mind-reading on the micro level of description, which is the third level. The “core-deficit-model of NPD” that I outline, while not rejecting reductionist approaches outright, argues in favor of integrating (top-down/bottom-up) functionalist descriptions of empathy into a wider conceptual framework of bio-psycho-social functioning. The “core-deficit-model of NPD” is interdisciplinary, can bypass monodisciplinary skepticism, and removes purported barriers between explaining and understanding the “lack” of empathy as the core of pathological narcissism. |
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spelling | pubmed-97095032022-12-01 The concept of Narcissistic Personality Disorder–Three levels of analysis for interdisciplinary integration Jacobs, Kerrin A. Front Psychiatry Psychiatry In this paper, I distinguish three different levels for describing, and three corresponding ways for understanding, deficient empathy as the core of NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder). On the macro level, deficient empathy can be explained as disturbed interpersonal functioning, and is understood as lack of recognition. On the meso-level, deficient empathy can be described as psychic disintegration, and can be understood specifically in its dissocial aspects. Psychic disintegration in NPD correlates with somatic changes, i.e., dysfunctional affective empathy and mind-reading on the micro level of description, which is the third level. The “core-deficit-model of NPD” that I outline, while not rejecting reductionist approaches outright, argues in favor of integrating (top-down/bottom-up) functionalist descriptions of empathy into a wider conceptual framework of bio-psycho-social functioning. The “core-deficit-model of NPD” is interdisciplinary, can bypass monodisciplinary skepticism, and removes purported barriers between explaining and understanding the “lack” of empathy as the core of pathological narcissism. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9709503/ /pubmed/36465294 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.989171 Text en Copyright © 2022 Jacobs. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychiatry Jacobs, Kerrin A. The concept of Narcissistic Personality Disorder–Three levels of analysis for interdisciplinary integration |
title | The concept of Narcissistic Personality Disorder–Three levels of analysis for interdisciplinary integration |
title_full | The concept of Narcissistic Personality Disorder–Three levels of analysis for interdisciplinary integration |
title_fullStr | The concept of Narcissistic Personality Disorder–Three levels of analysis for interdisciplinary integration |
title_full_unstemmed | The concept of Narcissistic Personality Disorder–Three levels of analysis for interdisciplinary integration |
title_short | The concept of Narcissistic Personality Disorder–Three levels of analysis for interdisciplinary integration |
title_sort | concept of narcissistic personality disorder–three levels of analysis for interdisciplinary integration |
topic | Psychiatry |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9709503/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36465294 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.989171 |
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