Testing Heinz Kohut's thoughts on narcissism and narcissistic rage: narcissistic injury paves the way for radicalization and subclinical paranoid states – an experimental study.

According to psychoanalytic self-psychological theory, narcissistic injuries may induce radical intentions, and subclinical paranoid states via self-psychological mechanisms. The testing took place in a narcissistic-injuring situation in Germany, where a reform of psychotherapy-training was implemen...

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Publicado en:Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 4 - 20
Autores principales: Reininger, Klaus Michael, Biel, Hannah Marie, Hennig, Timo, Moritz, Steffen, Briken, Peer, Löwe, Bernd
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2024
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          Reininger, Klaus Michael
          Biel, Hannah Marie
          Hennig, Timo
          Moritz, Steffen
          Briken, Peer
          Löwe, Bernd
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          Institute of Psychotherapy, University-Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
          Department for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University-Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
          Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Inclusive Education, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
          Department for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University-Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
          Institute for Sex Research Sexual Medicine and Forensic Psychiatry, University-Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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        Paranoia
        Anger
        Randomized controlled trials
        Confidence
        Psychology
        Analysis of variance
        Narcissism
        Narcissistic personality disorder
        College students
        Research funding
        Descriptive statistics
        Experimental design
        Psychoanalytic theory
        Data analysis software
        Confidence intervals
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          Paranoia
          Anger
          Randomized controlled trials
          Confidence
          Psychology
          Analysis of variance
          Narcissism
          Narcissistic personality disorder
          College students
          Research funding
          Descriptive statistics
          Experimental design
          Psychoanalytic theory
          Data analysis software
          Confidence intervals
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        narcissism
        narcissistic injury
        narcissistic rage
        Radicalization
        state paranoia
        narcissism
        narcissistic injury
        narcissistic rage
        Radicalization
        state paranoia
      ab: According to psychoanalytic self-psychological theory, narcissistic injuries may induce radical intentions, and subclinical paranoid states via self-psychological mechanisms. The testing took place in a narcissistic-injuring situation in Germany, where a reform of psychotherapy-training was implemented with only brief period of transition for those aiming to become psychotherapists after graduating. Within a randomized controlled-experimental design, 100 psychology-students were to read information about short transition-periods for them (affectedness-by-the-reform-condition) vs. for education-students (no-affectedness-by-the-reform-condition). After reading a radicalization-prompt, discussing in a 30-minute-group-discussion, participants in both conditions completed dependent measures of separatist identification, negative affects, overconfidence, radical intentions and subclinical paranoid states. Compared to the control condition (n = 49), psychologists in the experimental-condition (n = 51) stronger experienced narcissistic injury (d between 0.79 and 1.01; manipulation-check). They experienced a stronger alloyance with an archaic-omnipotent object (d = 0.52), exhibited more negative affects (d = 0.46), claimed overconfidence (d = 0.50), more radical intentions (d = 0.52), and subclinical paranoid states (d = 0.43). Our study supports Kohut's idea that antisocial as well as paranoid states are responses to narcissistic injuries mediated by the alloyance with an archaic-omnipotent object, negative affects and overconfidence.
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