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XVI, 368 S. / p. Schutzumschlag berieben mit Randläsuren, wenige Bleistiftanstreichungen, sonst altersgemäß tadelloser Zustand / Dust jacket rubbed with edge wear, a few pencil marks, otherwise in perfect condition for its age - Many patients seeking psychotherapy suffer from a deep disturbance of self-esteem, manifested by feelings of inner emptiness, lack of initiative, and various malfunctions in the social and sexual sphere. The essence of this hitherto ill-recognized syndrome, which the author calls Narcissistic Personality Disturbance, is a defect in the person s sense of inner cohesion and continuity: an insufficient consolidation of the Self. This book defines the substance of the psychological illness from which these patients suffer and an important normal phase of personality development which is correlated to it. It also shows that the understanding of this condition opens the door to the successful, rational treatment of frequently encountered psychological disturbances which were formerly thought to be inaccessible to insight-providing psychotherapy. -- These patients establish a specific relationship to the psychoanalyst. They attempt to use him - as does a small child his mother as a mirror in order to discover themselves and in order to be reflected in his admiration of them. Or they admire the analyst and attempt to experience themselves as part of him, feeling strong and good so long as this experience can be maintained. Up to now such events were looked upon as undesirable retreats from the therapeutic task of reaching realism and maturity. This monograph, however, demonstrates that the therapeutic revival of these unfulfilled childhood needs allows the patients to obtain insight into the nature of their psychological imbalance and to gain mastery and control over it. The patients are thus enabled to make two crucial developmental steps which they had not been able to make in childhood: they convert their archaic grandiosity into healthy self-esteem, and they transmute external idealized omnipotent figures of their childhood into a set of internal guiding values and ideals. -- The author presents numerous and extensive clinical case reports to illustrate the psychopathology of the narcissistic personality disturbances, the variety of transference phenomena presented by these patients, the specific technical problems confronting the analyst, as well as the analyst s desirable and undesirable responses to the special demands made on him by such patients. He thus fully documents the successful analytic treatment of what might well be one of the most frequently occurring forms of psychological maladjustment of modern man. -- While depth psychology has for long been preoccupied with the study of the normal and abnormal aspects of the individual s emotional involvement with others, this monograph investigates the person s love and concern for himself, in its normal and abnormal aspects. In addition, therefore, to dealing with a specific form of psychopathology, this book illuminates the role of narcissism not only in most of the other forms of mental disturbance, but also generally in the life of man. The areas which are thus examined from this new perspective include the development and the developmental disturbances of man s selfesteem and self-confidence, the formation and malformation of his guiding ideals, his empathy for the thoughts and feelings of others, his initiative and creativity, and even his sense of humour and wisdom. ISBN 0701218083 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 356 Originalleinen mit Originalschutzumschlag / Cloth with dustjacket. Seller Inventory # 1233569
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