James F. Masterson was a prominent American psychiatrist.
On narcissism
In 1993, Masterson proposed two categories for pathological narcissism, "exhibitionist" and "closet". ==Works==
Works
• Psychotherapy of the Borderline Adult: A Developmental Approach. (Brunner/Mazel, 1976) • The Real Self: A Developmental, Self, and Object Relations Approach. (Brunner/Mazel, 1985) • The Search for the Real Self: Unmasking the Personality Disorders of Our Age. (Collier Macmillan, 1988) • The Emerging Self: A Developmental Self & Object Relations Approach to the Treatment of the Closet Narcissistic Disorder of the Self (Routledge, 1993) • The Personality Disorders Through The Lens of Attachment Theory and the Neurobiologic Development of the Self (Zeig, Tucker & Theisen, 2005) • The Search for the Real Self: Unmasking the Personality Disorders of Our Age (Free Press, Simon & Schuster, 1988) • The Narcissistic and Borderline Disorders (Brunner/Mazel, 1981) • The Psychiatric Dilemma of Adolescence (Little, Brown, 1967) • Disorders of the Self: New Therapeutic Horizons: The Masterson Approach, Masterson & Klein, eds. (Brunner/Mazel, 1995). ==References==