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Narcissistic personality traits are related to a worse reaction to psychotherapeutic treatment. This is the result of a German multicenter study with more than 2,000 participants who received outpatient and inpatient psychotherapy. The findings of the research team from the University Hospital Jena and the University of Münster, now published in the clinical journal The Lancet Psychiatry, could possibly contribute to a greater individualization of psychotherapy.
In honor of Narcissus, a character in Greek mythology, a narcissist is someone who has a high sense of greatness and entitlement. In a German-wide study of more than 2,000 inpatient and outpatient psychotherapy patients, a team of researchers from the University Hospital Jena and the University of Münster tested how narcissism scales the treatment of intellectual fitness problems. To do this, the research team recorded the point of the participants’ narcissistic use characteristics and depressive symptoms before and after treatment with two other methods of psychotherapy.
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Reference: Richter M, Mota S, Hater L et al. Narcissistic dimensions and depressive symptoms in patients with intellectual disorders in cognitive behavioral treatment and interactional psychoanalytic treatment in Germany: a prospective cohort study. The Lancet Psychiatry. 2023: S2215036623002936. Is That I: 10. 1016/S2215-0366(23)00293-6
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