Download or read book Narcissism and Character Transformation written by Nathan Schwartz-Salant and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to the phenomenology of narcissism -- what it looks like, what it means and how to deal with it. Draws on mythology and a variety of analytic points of view (Jung, Klein, Freud, Kohut, etc.).
Download or read book The Order Disorder Paradox written by Nathan Schwartz-Salant and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing order in a system also creates disorder: this seemingly paradoxical idea has deep roots in early cultures throughout the world, but it has been largely lost in our modern lives as we push for increasing systematization in our world and in our personal lives. Drawing on nearly five decades of research as well as forty-five years working as a psychoanalyst, Nathan Schwartz-Salant explains that, in a world where vast amounts of order are being created through the growing success of science and technology, the concomitant disorder is having devastating effects upon relationships, society, and the environment. As a Jungian analyst with training in the physical sciences, Schwartz-Salant is uniquely qualified to explore scientific conceptions of energy, information, and entropy alongside their mythical antecedents. He analyzes the possible effects of created disorder, including its negative consequences for the creator of the preceding order as well as its potentially transformative functions. With many examples of the interaction of order and disorder in everyday life and psychotherapy, The Order-Disorder Paradox makes new inroads into our understanding of the wide-ranging consequences of the order we create and its effects on others and the environment.
Download or read book The Mystery of Human Relationship written by Nathan Schwartz-Salant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All human relationships are containers of emotional life, but what are the structures underlying them? Nathan Schwartz-Salant looks at all kinds of relationships through an analyst's eye. By analogy with the ancient system of alchemy he shows how states of mind that can undermine our relationships - in marriage, in creative work, in the workplace - can become transformative when brought to consciousness. It is only by learning how to access the interactive field of our relationships that we can enter this transformative process and explore its mysterious potential for self-realization.
Download or read book Stop Caretaking the Borderline Or Narcissist written by Margalis Fjelstad and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People with Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorders are master manipulators; Caretakers fall for them every time. This book helps Caretakers break the cycle and puts them on a new path of personal freedom, discovery, and self-awareness, through the use of real stories and practical suggestions from a seasoned therapist.
Download or read book Three Characters written by Christopher Bollas and published by Phoenix Publishing House. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is important to point out that these essays are about character types; it is not to suggest that all borderlines, narcissists or manic depressives are the same. Everyone is an individual and are who they are for many different reasons. What they have in common is a typical relation between their subjectivity and the world they inhabit. In other words, Christopher Bollas has identified the axioms that these individuals share. Following a discussion of the features of each type, the axioms are delivered in the character's own voice. By placing ourselves within their own logic, we can begin to identify and empathise with them. At the root of all character disorders there is mental pain and each disorder is an intelligent attempt to solve an existential problem. If the clinician can grasp their specific intelligence and help the analysand to understand this, then a natural process of healing can begin. Three Characters is a masterclass based on decades of lectures presented to psychoanalysts, analytical psychologists, and psychotherapists, and is a must-read for all psychoanalytic enthusiasts.
Download or read book Character Disturbance written by George K. Simon and published by Parkhurst Brothers Publishers Incorporated. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A psychologist helps readers understand a variety of personality disorders and offers advice on dealing with clinically disturbed people.
Download or read book The Forgiving Life written by Robert D. Enright and published by American Psychological Association. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forgiving Life offers scientifically supported guidance to help people forgive those in their lives who have acted unfairly and have inflicted emotional hurt. It does not minimize the devastation of that hurt. It does not require reconciliation with the one who inflicted the hurt. Rather, it describes a process, followed with success by people around the world, to confront the pain, rise above it to forgive, and in so doing, to loosen the grip of depression, anger, and resentment that has soured life. In this book, noted forgiveness expert Robert D. Enright invites readers to learn the benefits of forgiveness and to embark on a path of forgiveness, leaving behind a legacy of love. Guided by thought-provoking questions, journaling exercises, and Enright’s kind encouragement, readers can chart their own journey through a new life of forgiveness.
Download or read book Who Am I Really written by Daryl Sharp and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Title #67. What is personality? How does it differ from persona? What does soul have to do with individuality and individuation? Who Am I, Really? illuminates the personal identity and integrity issues raised by these questions and others.
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 309 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.
Download or read book Body and Soul written by Albert Kreinheder and published by Inner City Books, 1991 [i.e. 1990]. This book was released on 1991 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A feelings-intutitive approach to physical illness, vividly illustrating the symbolic attitude and active imagination with the body. The author was 76 when he died of cancer in 1990. Refreshingly candid and straight from the heart, Body and Soul reflects a life well and truly lived in relation to the Self.
Download or read book Malignant Self Love written by Sam Vaknin and published by Narcissus Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The FULL TEXT of Sam Vaknin's classic, groundbreaking BIBLE of NARCISSISM and NARCISSISTIC ABUSE, now in its 9th revision. Tips and advice as well as the most complete clinical background. Narcissistic Personality Disorder and its effects on the narcissist, the psychopath and their nearest and dearest - in 100 frequently asked questions and two essays - a total of 680 pages! Updated to reflect the NEW criteria in the recent fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM).
Download or read book Narcissism written by Julie a Gift and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-22 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narcissism is one of the most controversial concepts of psychoanalysis, and it's easy to be trapped in a narcissistic relationship. If you've been living with a narcissist, you probably already had a good idea of what narcissism is. Anyway, let's talk about what a narcissist is, what makes them tick, and why they act the way they do. Once you have a better understanding of these aspects of your partner's personality, you will be better prepared to take and stand up for yourself and help your partner change into a more loving person. In general, a narcissist is someone who needs people around to admire them. They feel that they are the most important person in the room, or even in the world, and so they expect everyone to act a certain way toward them because of it. They also have difficulty with empathy and are not able to relate to the fact that others have thoughts, feelings, and ideas independent of them. But there are ways to deal with narcissism with someone you love, which is the purpose of this book. Narcissist's favorite tool of control is Gaslighting. How did it come to be the favorite tool of manipulation for a narcissist? These questions and many more other questions might have come to your mind as you turned to this page, and to understand what gaslighting is, and how it became a favorite tool in a narcissist's tool bag, it is necessary to consider how gaslighting came to be a term. How to quit an emotionally destructive relationship with a narcissist? You try to make yourself known, but your efforts seem doomed to fail. You seldom (if ever) feel seen or understood. Your perspective is ignored, and your feelings are invalidated. Your attempts to communicate fall flat. At times, you feel invisible, enraged, depressed, and humiliated. You become locked in a battle for recognition. While the narcissist gazes longingly at the mirror, you gaze longingly at the narcissist. How is it that two opposite personalities are often attracted to each other? At first glance, the combination of an empath and a narcissist in a relationship can spell disaster, which can definitely be the end result, though many relationships like these can function one toxic level or another, it's interesting to focus on why the two polar opposites are attracted to one another in the first place. The empath fulfills a need in the narcissist, by giving them emotional support and admiration. This level of attention from an empath is deep and more intense than the average person, who may not express their feelings or desires as strongly. The narcissist thrives on this because it plays in his/her sense of importance. Healing from narcissistic abuse is possible. Some examples of Narcissistic Abuses: Love Bombing Systematic lies Never apologize Future Faking: talk about a future that has no intention of realizing (going to live together, getting married, having children, etc ...) Continually judge and criticize other Create ad hoc quarrels Do these situations sound familiar? Then this book is for you. In this book we will discuss the following topics: -The origin of Narcissism -What Is Narcissistic Abuse -How to find out if your partner is a narcissist -Does a healthy narcissism exist? page 33 -The sneaky mechanism of Gaslighting -How to overcoming loneliness page 214 -Say enough to your oppressor -Healing from Toxic Relationships What are you waiting for? Download this book now and escape from the cage!
Download or read book Liminality and Transitional Phenomena written by Nathan Schwartz-Salant and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of eleven essays, each exploring an aspect on liminal space and transitional phenomena. Issues addressed include transformation in therapy, sacred space, ritual, healing, anima, opposites, and active imagination. Contributors employ scholarship, case studies, myths, film and ideas of current interest in the field.
Download or read book The Narcissist s Daughter written by Craig Holden and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his earlier acclaimed novels, Craig Holden created a thrilling vision of America that was at once lyrical and dark. Now, with The Narcissist's Daughter, he expands that vision in his most accomplished and controversial work to date, a drama about the collision between two families, both riddled with desires but from opposite sides of the tracks. From the outside the Kesslers appear to have it all: Dr. Ted Kessler is a decorated veteran who now runs the lab at a large medical center. He and his wife, Joyce, live with their daughter, Jessi, in a beautiful house in the estate section of an Ohio city in the 1970s. Ted is widely respected as a clinician, researcher, manager, and businessman. But when he resolves to mentor an ambitious working-class student, this idyllic little world is threatened. Syd Redding, the gruff, streetwise narrator of The Narcissist's Daughter, has no plan in mind for the Kesslers. He's a bored pre-med student with few prospects, a failure for a stepfather, and a sister who seems to be following his example. Soon after he meets Kessler's wife and daughter, he finds himself ensnared in the secret machinations of this magnetic family on the brink of unraveling. The Narcissist's Daughter is the compulsively readable and suspenseful story of a simple affair that blossoms into obsession, exploitation, and finally, a passion for revenge that threatens to ruin the lives of everyone involved.
Download or read book The Narcissism of Small Differences written by Michael Zadoorian and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comedy of compromise thaT “brims with wit, passion and soul” from the international bestselling author of Beautiful Music (The Millions, A Most Anticipated 2020 Book). Joe Keen and Ana Urbanek have been a couple for a long time, with all the requisite lulls and temptations, yet they remain unmarried and without children, contrary to their Midwestern values (and parents’ wishes). Now on the cusp of forty, they are both working at jobs that they’re not even sure they believe in anymore, but with significantly varying returns. Ana is successful, Joe is floundering—both in limbo, caught somewhere between mainstream and alternative culture, sincerity and irony, achievement and arrested development. Set against the backdrop of bottomed-out 2009 Detroit, a once-great American city now in transition, part decaying and part striving to be reborn, The Narcissism of Small Differences is the story of an aging creative class, doomed to ask the questions: Is it possible to outgrow irony? Does not having children make you one? Is there even such a thing as selling out anymore? “While everyone is trying so hard to act normal, The Narcissism of Small Differences revels in its own weirdness.” —Ben Folds, New York Times bestselling author/singer-songwriter “In a literary landscape where most are hell-bent on outplotting their peers, Michael Zadoorian has sculpted a thriller from everyday life.” —Josh Malermann, author of Bird Box “The Narcissism of Small Differences is one of [Zadoorian’s] best. He has become an essential chronicler of the life in Detroit at the beginning of our century.” —Stateside, Michigan Public Radio
Download or read book The Black Nightgown written by Nathan Schwartz-Salant and published by Chiron Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman's dream of being trapped in a black nightgown reveals a dread that dominates her psyche and blocks her development as a self. In her story and others, Jungian analyst Nathan Schwartz-Salant reveals how the same complex characterizes our society as a whole. This archetypal pattern is the Fusional Complex. The Fusional Complex is like the Renaissance alchemists' prima materia, said to be vile and worthless, ubiquitous and easily discarded, and yet essential for the creation of that most highly prized goal of the alchemical opus: the lapis, a symbol of the self. Like the prima materia, the Fusional Complex is found everywhere--in addiction and codependency, in masochistic submissions that sacrifice essence and potential, in the dark corners of relationships that are fixed in old patterns and simmer in contempt and resentment, and in the array of the character disorders. Because it generally goes unseen, however, these disorders do not transform. Through the theory of the Fusional Complex, and with the non-ordinary perception that detects it, we can learn to make transformative discoveries that are rarely possible through usual analytic procedures. And through the cultural and individual examples of The Black Nightgown, we will see that the Fusional Complex is the doorway through which any new form of consciousness and associated self--the structure that bestows a sense of identity and order within human life--must pass.
Download or read book The Mother written by Sibylle Birkhäuser-Oeri and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical illustation of how the mother complex funcations in the world as well as in the deeper regions of the psyche. The focus here is on positive and negative aspects of the maternal image in well-known fairy tales, including Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Hansel and Gretel.
