Transference-focused therapy focuses on the patient's expression of their emotions towards the therapist.

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Pharmacological treatment for NPD has not been established yet but medicine can be used to treat symptoms. For example, antidepressants, antipsychotics, and mood stabilizers can be prescribed. Additionally, long-term therapy can be used to work on symptoms and develop coping skills. Types of psychotherapy for people with NPD may include psychodynamic, transference-focused, and schema-focused therapy.

Treatment options for people with NPD.

- Psychoanalytic Therapy (Psychoanalysis)
- Brief Psychodynamic Therapy (BPT)
- Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
- Object Relations Therapy (ORT)
- Relational Psychoanalysis (RP)
- Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP)

Subtypes of Psychodynamic Therapy

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Psychodynamic psychotherapy focuses on helping the patient become self-aware of what triggers certain behaviors and how to cope with them.

Psychodynamic psychotherapy

Transference-focused therapy for NPD

Schema-focused therapy employs types of cognitive-behavioral therapy.

Schema-focused therapy for treating NPD

Interpersonal therapy is a short term form of treatment that helps individuals to understand interpersonal issues that are troublesome. This includes unresolved grief, conflicts with significant others, changes in social or work roles, and problems relating to others. This approach helps individuals to learn healthier ways to express emotions, how to improve communication, and how they relate to others. This approach is most often used to treat depression.

Interpersonal Therapy

TFP focuses on repairing patients' dysfunctional object-relations and helping them to integrate their fragmented identities to maintain the succinctness of their internal world despite the chaotic external world. 

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