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The Americanization of Narcissism

Author : Elizabeth Lunbeck
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674727134
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Americanization of Narcissism written by Elizabeth Lunbeck and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American social critics in the 1970s, convinced that their nation was in decline, turned to psychoanalysis for answers and seized on narcissism as the sickness of the age. Books indicting Americans as greedy, shallow, and self-indulgent appeared, none more influential than Christopher Lasch’s famous 1978 jeremiad The Culture of Narcissism. This line of critique reached a crescendo the following year in Jimmy Carter’s “malaise speech” and has endured to this day. But as Elizabeth Lunbeck reveals, the American critics missed altogether the breakthrough in psychoanalytic thinking that was championing narcissism’s positive aspects. Psychoanalysts had clashed over narcissism from the moment Freud introduced it in 1914, and they had long been split on its defining aspects: How much self-love, self-esteem, and self-indulgence was normal and desirable? While Freud’s orthodox followers sided with asceticism, analytic dissenters argued for gratification. Fifty years later, the Viennese émigré Heinz Kohut led a psychoanalytic revolution centered on a “normal narcissism” that he claimed was the wellspring of human ambition, creativity, and empathy. But critics saw only pathology in narcissism. The result was the loss of a vital way to understand ourselves, our needs, and our desires. Narcissism’s rich and complex history is also the history of the shifting fortunes and powerful influence of psychoanalysis in American thought and culture. Telling this story, The Americanization of Narcissism ultimately opens a new view on the central questions faced by the self struggling amid the tumultuous crosscurrents of modernity.

In Defense of Narcissism

Author : Carl Goldberg
Publisher : Gardner Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Defense of Narcissism written by Carl Goldberg and published by Gardner Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1980 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Right to Narcissism

Author : Pleshette DeArmitt
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823254453
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book The Right to Narcissism written by Pleshette DeArmitt and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to wrest the concept of narcissism from its common and pejorative meanings— egoism and vanity—by revealing its complexity and importance. DeArmitt undertakes the work of rehabilitating “narcissism” by patiently reexamining the terms and figures that have been associated with it, especially in the writings of Rousseau, Kristeva, and Derrida. These thinkers are known for incisively exposing a certain (traditional) narcissism that has been operative in Western thought and culture and for revealing the violence it has wrought— from the dangers of amour-propre and the pathology of a collective “one’s own” to the phantasm of the sovereign One. Nonetheless, each of these thinkers denounces the naive denunciation of “narcissism,” as the dangers of a non-negotiation with narcissism are more perilous. By rethinking “narcissism” as a complex structure of self-relation through the Other, the book reveals the necessity of an im-possible self-love.

The New Science of Narcissism

Author : W. Keith Campbell, PhD
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1649630115
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book The New Science of Narcissism written by W. Keith Campbell, PhD and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cut Through the Noise Around Narcissism with the Leading Researcher in the Field Narcissism is truly one of the most important concepts our time--ceaselessly discussed in the media, the subject of millions of online search queries, and at the center of serious social and political debates. But what does it really mean? In The New Science of Narcissism, Dr. W. Keith Campbell pulls back the curtain on this frequently misused label, presenting the most recent psychological, personality, and social research into the phenomenon. Rather than pathologizing all behaviors associated with the label, Dr. Campbell reveals that not only does narcissism occur on a spectrum, but almost everyone exhibits narcissistic tendencies in their day-to-day behavior. Drawing from real-life incidents and case studies, The New Science of Narcissism offers tools, tips, and suggestions for softening toxically selfish behaviors in both yourself and others. Though narcissism looms large in our cultural consciousness, this paperback edition of The New Science of Narcissism offers many different options for understanding and treating it. With Dr. Campbell's straightforward and grounded guidance, you'll not only discover the latest and best information on the condition, but also a hopeful view of its future.

Disordered Minds

Author : Ian Hughes
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785358812
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Disordered Minds written by Ian Hughes and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disordered Minds offers a compelling and timely account of the dangers posed by narcissistic leaders, and provides a stark warning that the conditions in which this psychopathy flourishes - extremes of social inequality and a culture of hyper-individualism - are the hallmarks of our present age. 'An excellent account of how malignant narcissism is evident in the lives of the great dictators, and how the conditions in which this psychopathy flourishes have returned to haunt us.' Dr Kieran Keohane, editor of The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization

The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations

Author : Christopher Lasch
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393356922
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations written by Christopher Lasch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic New York Times bestseller, with a new introduction by E.J. Dionne Jr. When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a “biblical prophet” (Time). Lasch’s identification of narcissism as not only an individual ailment but also a burgeoning social epidemic was groundbreaking. His diagnosis of American culture is even more relevant today, predicting the limitless expansion of the anxious and grasping narcissistic self into every part of American life. The Culture of Narcissism offers an astute and urgent analysis of what we need to know in these troubled times.

I Know Best

Author : Roger L. Simon
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1594038066
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book I Know Best written by Roger L. Simon and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1979, Christopher Lasch published the epochal The Culture of Narcissism warning of the normalizing of narcissism in our society. Lasch may have understated it. 35 years later, in the Obama era—with its parade of endless, often inexplicable, scandals—we have a full blown epidemic of what has recently been called Moral Narcissism. Forget Narcissus and his reflection, Moral Narcissism—the almost schizophrenic divide between intentions and results now pervading our culture—is the new method for feeling good about yourself. It no longer matters how anything turns out as long as your intentions were good, that you were “moral.” And, just as importantly, the only determinant of those intentions, the only one who defines that morality, is you. I Know Best goes beyond Lasch to lay bare how this moral narcissism is behind all those scandals from Obamacare to the Veteran's Administration to the IRS, Benghazi, Bergdahl, Syria and beyond. Everything the Obama administration did and does was about making them feel good about themselves—the results be damned. And they have as their allies those supreme moral narcissists in the academy, media and Hollywood, ever willing to ratify those good intentions and ignore those same results. But I Know Best is not just about the Left. Moral Narcissism affects the right as well, even when they don’t realize it. It is a true epidemic that must be cured in order to save our democratic republic and our futures.

The Narcissist You Know

Author : Joseph Burgo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476785694
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The Narcissist You Know written by Joseph Burgo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Burgo has developed a ... guidebook to help you 'spot narcissists out there in the wild' (Glamour) and then understand and manage the narcissistic personalities in your own life. Relying on detailed profiles, vignettes from the authors practice, and celebrity biographies, [this book] offers ... tools and solutions you can use to defuse hostile situations and survive assaults on your self-esteem should you ever find yourself in an extreme narcissist's orbit"--Amazon.com.

The Selfishness of Others

Author : Kristin Dombek
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374712549
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Selfishness of Others written by Kristin Dombek and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They're among us, but they are not like us. They manipulate, lie, cheat, and steal. They are irresistibly charming and accomplished, appearing to live in a radiance beyond what we are capable of. But narcissists are empty. No one knows exactly what everyone else is full of--some kind of a soul, or personhood--but whatever it is, experts agree that narcissists do not have it. So goes the popular understanding of narcissism, or NPD (narcissistic personality disorder). And it's more prevalent than ever, according to recent articles in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Time. In bestsellers like The Narcissism Epidemic, Narcissists Exposed, and The Narcissist Next Door, pop psychologists have armed the normal with tools to identify and combat the vampiric influence of this rising population, while on websites like narcissismsurvivor.com, thousands of people congregate to swap horror stories about relationships with "narcs." In The Selfishness of Others, the essayist Kristin Dombek provides a clear-sighted account of how a rare clinical diagnosis became a fluid cultural phenomenon, a repository for our deepest fears about love, friendship, and family. She cuts through hysteria in search of the razor-thin line between pathology and common selfishness, writing with robust skepticism toward the prophets of NPD and genuine empathy for those who see themselves as its victims. And finally, she shares her own story in a candid effort to find a path away from the cycle of fear and blame and toward a more forgiving and rewarding life.

Traumatic Narcissism

Author : Daniel Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134672721
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Traumatic Narcissism written by Daniel Shaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation, Daniel Shaw presents a way of understanding the traumatic impact of narcissism as it is engendered developmentally, and as it is enacted relationally. Focusing on the dynamics of narcissism in interpersonal relations, Shaw describes the relational system of what he terms the 'traumatizing narcissist' as a system of subjugation – the objectification of one person in a relationship as the means of enforcing the dominance of the subjectivity of the other. Daniel Shaw illustrates the workings of this relational system of subjugation in a variety of contexts: theorizing traumatic narcissism as an intergenerationally transmitted relational/developmental trauma; and exploring the clinician's experience working with the adult children of traumatizing narcissists. He explores the relationship of cult leaders and their followers, and examines how traumatic narcissism has lingered vestigially in some aspects of the psychoanalytic profession. Bringing together theories of trauma and attachment, intersubjectivity and complementarity, and the rich clinical sensibility of the Relational Psychoanalysis tradition, Shaw demonstrates how narcissism can best be understood not merely as character, but as the result of the specific trauma of subjugation, in which one person is required to become the object for a significant other who demands hegemonic subjectivity. Traumatic Narcissism presents therapeutic clinical opportunities not only for psychoanalysts of different schools, but for all mental health professionals working with a wide variety of modalities. Although primarily intended for the professional psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, this is also a book that therapy patients and lay readers will find highly readable and illuminating.

When Narcissism Comes to Church

Author : Chuck DeGroat
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830841997
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book When Narcissism Comes to Church written by Chuck DeGroat and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chuck DeGroat has been counseling pastors with narcissistic personality disorder and those wounded by narcissistic leaders for over twenty years. Offering compassion and hope for both narcissists themselves and those affected by its destructive power, DeGroat imparts wise counsel for churches looking to heal from its systemic effects.

The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times

Author : Christopher Lasch
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393348369
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times written by Christopher Lasch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1985-10-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Even more valuable than its widely praised predecessor, The Culture of Narcissism." —John W. Aldridge Faced with an escalating arms race, rising crime and terrorism, environmental deterioration, and long-term economic decline, people have retreated from commitments that presuppose a secure and orderly world. In his latest book, Christopher Lasch, the renowned historian and social critic, powerfully argues that self-concern, so characteristic of our time, has become a search for psychic survival.

Recent Empirical Research and Methodologies in Defense Mechanisms

Author : Mariagrazia Di Giuseppe
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889741192
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Recent Empirical Research and Methodologies in Defense Mechanisms written by Mariagrazia Di Giuseppe and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-01-20 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Narcissism

Author : C. Fred Alford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300239591
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Narcissism written by C. Fred Alford and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Surrounded by Narcissists

Author : Thomas Erikson
Publisher : St. Martin's Essentials
ISBN 13 : 1250789575
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Surrounded by Narcissists written by Thomas Erikson and published by St. Martin's Essentials. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the bestselling Surrounded by Idiots series! Internationally bestselling author Thomas Erikson shares the secrets of dealing with everyday narcissists. Are the narcissists in your life making you miserable? Are you worn out by their constant demands for attention, their absolute conviction they are right (even when they’re clearly not), their determination to do whatever they want (regardless of the impact), and their baffling need to control everyone and everything around them? In this thought-provoking, sanity-saving book, Thomas Erikson helps you understand what makes narcissists tick and, crucially, how to handle them without wearing yourself out in the process. With the help of the simple, four-color behavioral model made famous in Surrounded by Idiots, Erikson provides all the tools you need to manage not just the narcissists around you but everyday narcissistic behaviors as well–something that is becoming more widespread in the age of social media. Engaging and practical, Surrounded by Narcissists will help you free yourself from the thrall of others' toxic agendas so you can pursue a happier, more fulfilling and successful life.

Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism

Author : Otto F. Kernberg
Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 1461627656
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism written by Otto F. Kernberg and published by Jason Aronson, Incorporated. This book was released on 1995-04-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basic text for the understanding of patients with pathological narcissism.

Narcissist

Author : Taylor Hench
Publisher : Efalon Acies
ISBN 13 : 8835878667
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Narcissist written by Taylor Hench and published by Efalon Acies. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a 3-book bundle, which addresses various subtopics, including but not limited to these: Book 1: If you’ve been looking for a book about narcissism, you probably already have an idea of what it is. Still, we’ll define it in this book before we start expanding on the intricate details of such a personality. In part, because there are so many myths about it and the term gets tossed around like a diaper into a trash been, while most people don’t realize what it is all about. Moreover, there are other aspects of narcissism that need to be addressed. For instance, other personality disorders, such as anorexia nervosa, are sometimes linked to narcissism; and susceptible or vulnerable narcissism is very different from grandiose narcissism. And yet, despite its many unattractive traits, many people are definitely charmed by the charisma of a narcissist. These topics are all very fascinating, so please, take the time to study them a bit. Book 2: How do you recognize a narcissist? What are the symptoms of narcissism? Are there different types of narcissists? These and many other questions will be addressed. Narcissism in students, in children, and in others will be laid out and explained in further detail. There are many things to learn about narcissism, so become familiar with it now! Book 3: In this guide, we will go over some interesting subtopics related to narcissism, such as the impact of celebrities on narcissists in society, of social media, and other significant influences. Also, we’ll go over a small checklist that you can use to see if a narcissist is a threat or not, so you know what to expect. Narcissism is often an issue in politics. Some narcissists are also sociopaths, and some narcissists are just the result of our civilization’s greedy emphasis on monetary values and the showing off of status symbols of wealth. And then all of this begs the question: Is narcissism ever beneficial? Or is it always wrong? And if so, to what extend? To learn more about these things, simply pick up this book online and start reading or listening.