Therapeutic interest

Therapeutic interest can mean interest in therapy or the interest of a therapy (e.g. it is normally the interest of therapy that a client and therapist show up).
The common "wisdom" is that narcissists do not want to change. When I tell people that I work with a number of clients who have Narcissistic Personality Disorder, they say, “Why? They aren’t really interested in psychotherapy.” The truth is that while many narcissists are not ready to do psychotherapy because they find it too painful to take a close look at themselves, some people with Narcissistic Personality Disorder actually do want to change. I know this, because the more motivated ones stay in therapy.Elinor Greenberg Ph.D.