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On the one hand, narcissism is one of the psychopathologies, which is one of the border structures shown as the spiritual organization of the age by mental health professionals, on the other hand, it appears as a developmental and spiritual capacity that is expected to be found in everyone. Closer to Kernberg's conceptualization of normal and pathological narcissism, narcissism can be evaluated on a spectrum that includes narcissistic traits in one situation end and narcissistic personality disorder is other.
At first glance, narcissists may appear to be successful and justifiably proud of their success in business or academia. Their extreme modesty for them, and their fragile state according to clinical use, which can be observed in some, do not even make those who look at them think of narcissism. On the other hand, narcissists are often not people who openly harm others, as is the case with the antisocial personality. These features, which will hardly attract attention in daily social life, are no longer unobtrusive features when it comes to close relationships. The context of psychotherapy, which is a professional and private state of close relationships, comes across as an important area in which such characteristics arise. Psychotherapy is a field of relationships in which transference occurs as in almost every relationship, perhaps even more strongly than in every relationship. The transfer can also determine the counter transfer. On the other hand, our knowledge is that typical transference and countertransference features may occur in some cases depending on psychopathologies.
In this literature review, it is aimed to look closely at transference and countertransference cases from the framework of narcissistic personality disorder.