This book presents a highly informative, lucid, and clinically useful account of pathological self-absorption and its deleterious effects upon capacities for concern, love, work, and morality. Not only does it address individual psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, it also elucidates the treatment of narcissistic patients in intensive psychiatric milieu, group therapy, schema-focused therapy, and even couples therapy.
Salman Akhtar, MD, is ... Read moreprofessor of psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and training and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This single volume assembles the current thinking of the leading figures in the field. The combination of breadth and thorough discussions that are both scholarly and clinically relevant is unusual and refreshing. Reading this book is like being a privileged guest at a meeting of the people whose work is synonymous with the study of narcissism today. It is a must for anyone who treats, studies, or is interested in narcissistic pathology.
Robert Michels, M.D., Cornell University Medical College; Walsh McDermott University Show Less