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Elsa Ronningstam publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Elsa Ronningstam sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 85 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Elsa Ronningstam D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Elsa Ronningstam sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Elsa Ronningstam is affiliated with Harvard Medical School in the United States. Their scholarly work focuses predominantly on psychology, with a specialization in clinical psychology. The researcher has contributed to a total of 58 publications in psychology, with 55 of those specifically addressing clinical psychology. Additional subfields include psychiatry and mental health, social psychology, philosophy, and applied psychology.

Their research topics cover a range of areas within mental health and behavioral studies. Key topics include:

  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Ronningstam has published primarily in the following venues:

  • Journal of Personality Disorders
  • Practice Innovations
  • Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
  • The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review
  • British Journal of Psychotherapy

Frequent collaborators include Mark J. Goldblatt, Benjamin Herbstman, Mark Schechter, Igor Weinberg, and Martin Blay.

Selected recent papers by Ronningstam encompass topics on pathological narcissism, alliance building, and therapeutic strategies:

  • "Internal Processing in Patients With Pathological Narcissism or Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Implications for Alliance Building and Therapeutic Strategies," 2020, Journal of Personality Disorders
  • "Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Progress in Understanding and Treatment," 2022, FOCUS The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry (co-authored by Igor Weinberg)
  • "Dos and Don'ts in Treatments of Patients With Narcissistic Personality Disorder," 2020, Journal of Personality Disorders (co-authored by Igor Weinberg)
  • "Perfectionism, Shame, and Aggression in Depressive Patients With Narcissistic Personality Disorder," 2020, Journal of Personality Disorders (co-authored by Jane Fjermestad-Noll)
  • "The Psychoanalytic Study of Suicide, Part I: An Integration of Contemporary Theory and Research," 2022, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (co-authored by Mark Schechter)

Best Publications

  • Narcissistic personality disorder: Facing DSM-V.

    Elsa Ronningstam

  • Early Discontinuance of Borderline Patients from Psychotherapy

    John G. Gunderson;Arlene F. Frank;Elsa F. Ronningstam;Stuart Wachter

  • Identifying and Understanding the Narcissistic Personality

    Elsa F. Ronningstam

  • Empathy in narcissistic personality disorder: from clinical and empirical perspectives.

    Arielle Baskin-Sommers;Elizabeth Krusemark;Elsa Ronningstam

  • Narcissistic personality disorder: a current review.

    Elsa Ronningstam

  • Narcissistic PersoNality DisorDer iN DsM V—iN suPPort of retaiNiNg a sigNificaNt DiagNosis

    Elsa Ronningstam

  • Changes in pathological narcissism.

    Elsa Ronningstam;John Gunderson;Michael Lyons

  • Narcissistic personality disorder: A clinical perspective.

    Elsa Ronningstam

  • Common factors in empirically supported treatments of borderline personality disorder.

    Igor Weinberg;Elsa Ronningstam;Mark J. Goldblatt;Mark Schechter

  • Disorders of narcissism : diagnostic, clinical, and empirical implications

    Elsa Ronningstam

  • The Diagnostic Interview for Narcissistic Patients

    John G. Gunderson;Elsa Ronningstam;Alexander Bodkin

  • Identifying criteria for narcissistic personality disorder

    Elsa Ronningstam;John G. Gunderson

  • Narcissistic Personality Disorder: A Review

    Elsa Ronningstam

  • Eleven deaths of Mr. K.: contributing factors to suicide in narcissistic personalities.

    Elsa Ronningstam;Igor Weinberg;John T. Maltsberger

  • Strategies in treatment of suicidality: identification of common and treatment-specific interventions in empirically supported treatment manuals.

    Igor Weinberg;Elsa Ronningstam;Mark J. Goldblatt;Mark Schechter

  • Narcissistic Personality Disorder: A Review of Data on DSM-III-R Descriptions

    John G. Gunderson;Elsa Ronningstam;Lauren E. Smith

  • Differentiating Narcissistic and Antisocial Personality Disorders

    John G. Gunderson;Elsa Ronningstam

  • Pathological Narcissism and Sudden Suicide‐Related Collapse

    Elsa F. Ronningstam;John T. Maltsberger

  • Pathological Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder in Axis I Disorders

    Elsa Ronningstam

  • Alliance building and narcissistic personality disorder.

    Elsa Ronningstam

  • Countertransference when working with narcissistic personality disorder: An empirical investigation.

    Annalisa Tanzilli;Laura Muzi;Elsa Ronningstam;Vittorio Lingiardi

  • Pathological Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Recent Research and Clinical Implications

    Elsa Ronningstam

Frequent Co-Authors

John G. Gunderson
John G. Gunderson Harvard University
Erik Simonsen
Erik Simonsen University of Copenhagen
Bo Bach
Bo Bach University of Copenhagen
Steven K. Huprich
Steven K. Huprich Michigan State University
Theodore Millon
Theodore Millon University of Miami
Andrew M. Chanen
Andrew M. Chanen University of Melbourne
Cesare Maffei
Cesare Maffei Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Michael J. Lyons
Michael J. Lyons Boston University
Mary C. Zanarini
Mary C. Zanarini Harvard University

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