Narcissistic Personality Disorder

1.       Summarize what you’ve learned by reading their glog.

      From this blog I learned that there is no known cause, but mental health professors believe that it is because of child rearing. It first starts with a grandiose sense of self importance, so they exaggerate things that they have done, and accomplished. Then they have fantasies of unlimited success, power, beauty, or ideal love. After that stage they are of high standards, and should only occupy themselves with people of the same status. They need to feel admiration, and unreasonable treatment. They begin to take others for granted, and use them to achieve what they want, and they lose all empathy for others. They begin to be overly confident, and feel that others are jealous of them, and their accomplishments. Their attitudes change from being understanding to self-centered. There are many symptoms that come with narcissistic personality disorder but most of them deal around the fact that they need to be the center of attention and anything they do is right and perfect, and when told differently they get mad and flustered. Something really interesting that this glog said is men are more likely to get this disorder than females.

2.       What psychotherapy method (not biomedical therapy) would be best suited to treat this disorder? 

      Humanistic Therapy/Client-Centered Therapy would be the best therapy for this disorder. This is because the patient already possesses the resources to change and grow, they just lack the genuineness, acceptance, and empathy from others to understand the problem. Helping the patient reach their own conclusions is the main goal. All the therapist does is try to help them realize what they are doing by giving positive regard, and not opinions or telling them what to do. I chose this because they already know what they need to do to change, they know that they need to stop being self-centered and try to interact with other people. It's in their brain, and they need to change on their own. The therapist just interacts with them, and tries to show without criticism what not to do, and how to change. They're there for support in changing, not trying to make them change.  

3.       What biomedical therapy would be best suited to treat this disorder? (if applicable)

      SSRIs work by slowing down the process of re uptake of serotonin. By doing this it will make a person happier, because serotonin is known as a happy drug. Because the serotonin isn't going through re uptake, the message of the serotonin is sent more frequently, although more isn't being produced. This allows the happy feeling to be sent throughout their brain more often, making the depression less.