Clinical treatment for NPD is rare due to the fact that most narcissists avoid therapy ("Narcissistic Personality Disorder."). Should a person with this disorder gain treatment there are individual and group therapy to help with changing maladaptive behaviors. Through individual therapy the therapist will try to treat the symptoms related to crisis and relatively external axis I diagnoses so as not to disturb the contiguity of the patient’s psyche due the importance of narcissism to the patient ("Narcissistic Personality Disorder Treatment | Psych Central."). Group therapy is used to help the Narcissist develop a healthy individuality so that he or she can acknowledge others as separate persons, and to decrease the need for self-defeating coping
Clinical treatment for NPD is rare due to the fact that most narcissists avoid therapy ("Narcissistic Personality Disorder."). Should a person with this disorder gain treatment there are individual and group therapy to help with changing maladaptive behaviors. Through individual therapy the therapist will try to treat the symptoms related to crisis and relatively external axis I diagnoses so as not to disturb the contiguity of the patient’s psyche due the importance of narcissism to the patient ("Narcissistic Personality Disorder Treatment | Psych Central."). Group therapy is used to help the Narcissist develop a healthy individuality so that he or she can acknowledge others as separate persons, and to decrease the need for self-defeating coping