Description: Great shape! Minimal wear and tear. No writing. Priced to sell! Book Review - 'Neville Symington approaches the well trodden subject of narcissism and offers us fresh insights from his long clinical experience with patients suffering from this disorder. The camera angle he employs is both unusual and enlightening. He has come to understand the narcissistic subject, not only from the well known Kleinian instinctual grandiosity/manic defense standpoint or from the trauma deficit conceptions of Fairbairn, Winnicott, Balint and Kohut, but also from the unique perspective of profound ontological insecurity.'Ecumenical in his outlook, though trained in the British Independent School of which he is a senior member, he looks at this disorder from what might today be called an existential point of departure. The infant/child becomes narcissistically disordered by making an unconscious choice, either towards the life giver (its authenticity or spontaneity) or to its disavowal and the use of magical pretence in order to avoid external reality.'Symington's concept of the life giver in its role in normal and abnormal narcissism constitutes a unique and integrating perspective on this entity and deserves serious consideration.'- From the Foreword by James S. Grotstein
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Book Title: Narcissism : A New Theory
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Neville Symington, J. Grotstein
Publication Name: Narcissism : a New Theory
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication Year: 1993
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 10.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
