@article{ref1,
title="Destructive narcissism and the obliteration of subject-object separation: various manifestations of an underlying psychodynamic configuration",
journal="British journal of psychotherapy",
year="1999",
author="Seidler, Günter H.",
volume="15",
number="3",
pages="291-305",
abstract="The article describes the specific psychodynamics of ?destructive narcissism?, a configuration which in its effects, if not in its intentions, can truly be said to be ?destructive?. The two most widely used diagnostic manuals (ICD-10 and DSM-IV) correctly deny it the status of an illness or personality disorder in its own right, as it is more appropriately described as a fundamental anthropological dimension. As such it is similar in status to consciousness, bipersonal reciprocity or self-referentiality. Its aim is the obliteration of the subject-object relation. Destructive narcissism finds expression in a variety of manifestations differing according to context. They include some psychic symptoms and disorders. The article is also a plea for the application of psychoanalysis (enriched by a phenomenological perspective) to the discussion of anthropological issues.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0265-9883",
doi="10.1111/j.1752-0118.1999.tb00454.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-0118.1999.tb00454.x"
}