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The author defends the thesis that Kohut's theory of the self and of self-objects and his recommendation of an empathic attitude on the therapist's part offer a more relevant understanding of and better treatment possibilities for narcissistic personality disturbances than does the interpretation of these disturbances in the framework of the topographic or the structural model of the psychic apparatus.