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Will I Ever Be Good Enough?: Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers

8 reviews
Karyl McBride

Free Press, 2008

If you have lived through it, you've got to read it, she is writing for you.
I haven't finished it yet, however I knew just from reading the foreword that this had potential to be life changing for me. Things were identified "on paper" that I had never seen written anywhere, or had validated in my 46 years of trying to understand my relationship (or lack there-of) with my mom. It were as if I had written the book and was re-reading it. It is very hard to vocalize ...

The Point of Existence: Transformations of Narcissism in Self-Realization (Diamond Mind Series, 3)

5 reviews
A. H. Almaas

Shambhala, 2000

Therapeutic Insights in the Process of Self-Realization
Much like a major symphonic work, A. H. Almaas' work slowly develops several theme that ultimately converge to reveal incredible beauty and meaning. The initial chapters of the work are somewhat difficult in the extremely fine discriminations that the author makes in setting the ground work for his main arguments. In brief, for Almaas, narcissism is the identification with anything other than ...

Alcoholism, Narcissism and Psychopathology

4 reviews
Gary G. Forrest

Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd, 1983

The Addicted Narcissist
To attribute alcoholism to narcissistic regression is both commonplace and controversial. But there a less convoluted clinical "handle": Pathological narcissism is an addiction to narcissistic supply, the narcissist's drug of choice. It is, therefore, not surprising that other addictive and reckless behaviors - workaholism, alcoholism, drug abuse, pathological gambling, compulsory shopping, or ...

The Wizard of Oz and Other Narcissists: Coping with the One-Way Relationship in Work, Love, and Family
Eleanor Payson

Julian Day Publications, 2002

Every day headlines are filled with examples of narcissistic individuals in positions of power who are nothing more than impostors plundering and wrecking havoc on the lives of others. From the corporate moguls of Enron and WorldCom to the clergy leaders of the Catholic Church, we daily encounter narcissists and the self-serving systems that enable them. Helping people reclaim their lives from this sinister exploitative force is the mission ...

What Narcissism Means to Me: Poems

8 reviews
Tony Hoagland

Graywolf Press, 2003

Honest, blunt poetry from a captivating author
While taking a poetry class from Mark Jarman, I had the chance to hear Tony Hoagland read selections from this, his newest book, as well as selections from Donkey Gospel, along with some unpublished works. If at all possible, hear this man read his poetry--it is incomparable and surprisingly refreshing. I usually don't like poetry readings, but after hearing some of these poems, I ended up buying ...

Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited

61 reviews
Sam Vaknin

Narcissus Publications,Czech Republic, 2001

Get Out While You Can.
I have used Vaknins website and book to give me some ideas, and hope, for the situation I am in. I am setting firm boundaries and consequences. I hope through the book I can learn to get more of my life back. All I can say to others is, "If you can get out, run as fast as you can, cause if you don't get out they will destroy you". I know a couple other women in town who have been in long term ...

Male Impersonators: Men Performing Masculinity

7 reviews
Mark Simpson

Routledge, 1994

AN INSPIRATION TO TARANTINO?
One of the most interesting - and funniest - books I've ever read, and certainly by far the best on masculinity. I especially enjoyed the masterpiece chapter on the movie 'Top Gun' which completely convincingly interprets it as a gay movie and shows how Cruise's real interest is Val Kilmer not Kelly McGillis. Shortly after this book was published Quentin Tarantino appeared in a film called ...

Facing the Dragon: Confronting Personal and Spiritual Grandiosity

4 reviews
Robert L. Moore, Max J., Jr. Havlick

Chiron Publications, 2003

Facing The Dragon, The Best Book on The Great Self Within
When you take a look around at this latest rising wave of darkness in our world, there are few voices speaking with clarity about the fundamental psychological and spiritual sources of that darkness, and, what can realistically be done on both an individual and global scale about it. Many are talking naively or in terms of divisiveness out of their own grandiosity. Robert Moore's new book, Facing ...

Get Out Of Your Boxx! And Live The Life You Really Want!: But First Don't Forget To...drive The Carpool, Call ...

6 reviews
Mary Jo Fay

Out of the Boxx, 2003

Discover your own world of possabilities!
Reading Get Out Of Your Boxx And Live The Life You Really Want is a liberating experience that will remove you from all the traps that have held you (and the author, Mary Jo Fay) back -- perhaps for a lifetime. For me, this book was a Godsend. Certainly, information like this is out there in other books, magazines, online newsletters, etc. However, I believe that most readers will identify ...

Enough About You: The Narcissist's 7-Step, 1-Minute Survival Guide to Sacred Spirituality, a Self-Empowered ...

5 reviews
Mimi E. Gotist

HarperOne, 2003

I laughed a little too hard.......
I got this as a birthday gift, from my sister no less. At first I was insulted, and then I started reading and couldn't stop laughing. This is a great send-up of the self-help, I'm-OK-you're-OK genre that says all we have to do is acknowledge our fear of failure, selfish behavior, and loathing of humanity and then miraculously everything will be OK. While Mimi's discourses on "The Tyranny of ...

Egotopia: Narcissism and the New American Landscape

2 reviews
John Miller

University Alabama Press, 1999

A critical, and sometimes harsh, view of cultural decline
Miller's Egotopia presents an iconoclastic, highly critical view of modern America. Miller's central thesis is that the suppression of the public individual in favor of the private individual has had drastic consequences on our culture and environment; while Miller's focus is on aesthetics, his argument can be modified to bear on discussions of the environment and ethics as well. To blame for ...

The Kohut Seminars on Self Psychology and Psychotherapy With Adolescents and Young Adults

1 review

W. W. Norton & Company, 1987

The Kohut Seminars
Heinz Kohut's theories have had a tremendous influence on our thinking about the development of the self. This book highlights the clinical application of those theories. The seminars, focusing on treatment of late adolescents and young adults in a university setting, provide the reader with an unparalleled opportunity to study the spontaneous workings of Kohut's mind as he moved from clinical ...

Identifying and Understanding the Narcissistic Personality

1 review

Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

Narcissism? Forget what you have read and read this book!
This is the real thing, and from what I can tell, written by a leading expert on narcissism. Through a large number of clinical illustrations, the author presents a wide range of narcissistic behavioral patterns. From shyness, to uncontrolled rage, to suicide, the author "bares it all" and leaves the reader with a complex and yet real understanding of the delicate balance and imbalances of ego, ...

The Lust of Seeing: Themes of the Gaze and Sexual Rituals in the Fiction of Felisberto Hernandez

1 review
Frank Graziano

Bucknell University Press, 1997

A masterful introduction to an unknown genius.
This is an insightful, compelling and radically original study. The Lust of Seeing will be essential to all future work on Hernandez and to a range of issues in cultural studies.

Disorders of Narcissism: Diagnostic, Clinical, and Empirical Implications

1 review

American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 1998

A Must!
Pathological narcissism has been the topic of heated discussion for a hundred years now. Freud, Kohut, Klein, Winnicott, Kernberg - have all contributed their point of view. Roningstam belongs in this august company as a major theoretician and practitioner. This book - an anthology of writings about this intractable and maddening phenomena - is both whole and partial. It is whole is that it ...

Blessed Are the Cynical

1 review
Mark Ellingsen

Brazos Press, 2003

Politics and religion!
Mark Ellingsen does a great job at revealing how politics are determined by what people believe. Understanding and accepting the truth about the way human nature is will explain the dynamics of a society which will in turn give the opportunity for the hope of America's revival back to the way it once was. It's obvious though that given human nature being as it is, people don't want to know the ...

The Heresy of Self-Love: A Study of Subversive Individualism

1 review
Paul Zweig

Princeton Univ Pr, 1980

The Heresy of Self-Love
Originally published in 1968 and reissued now with a new preface and conclusion, this work explores versions of Narcissus that have powerfully shaped the attitudes of our culture. Ranging from the Gnostics of the second century A.D. through mediaeval mysticism, courtly love, Tristan and Isolde, Skakespeare's Sonnets, Milton, Descartes, Spinoza, and Rousseau' to Kierkegaard, Herman Melville, ...

The Ego Ideal: A Psychoanalytic Essay On The Malady Of The Ideal

1 review
Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel

Free Association Books, 1985

How do we grow up?
Chasseguet-Smirgel here shows us how we grow up and why we grow into perversion or away from maturity. Inner and outer exigencies are brilliantly evoked and piercingly communicated.

Coping with Infuriating, Mean, Critical People: The Destructive Narcissistic Pattern

2 reviews
Nina W. Brown

Praeger Publishers, 2006

Should be more books like this.
Although I gave this book a "five" I do find that the book is lacking (in fact I probably should give it a four.) Yes, I know one is usually supposed to list the positives before talking about negatives, but this book could have been a definitive book if the author had stayed more in line with her title. Here's the only beef I had with the book: She does an excellent job helping the ...

Me: The Narcissistic American

1 review
Aaron Stern

Ballantine Books, Inc., 1979

Humaness 101
Me, is a description of the basis of human function that few people are willing to expose or even read about. Looking at ourselves as a structure on which to build, this book reveals narcissism as the foundation of our humaness, but the walls of our humaness are revelations of our personality. This book tells all. It reveals truth that all of us need to contemplate, and act upon.

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