Author of many respected psychoanalytic works including Narcissism: A
New Theory, Emotion and Spirit, Making of a Psychotherapist and The
Spirit of Sanity, the distinguished psychoanalyst Neville Symington's
latest book expands, refines and deepens what has become an ever more
impressive, far-reaching and absorbing inquiry into the nature of
madness and sanity.It is Symington's central contention that the core
psychopathology of our times can be identified and designated as
narcissism, although self-centredness, egoism or solipsism might
serve equally well. Critical of psychiatry's mere symptomatology, and
of much psychotherapeutic practice as superficial and sterile, the
present volume probes compellingly into the narcissistic pattern in
an effort to delineate its structure in all its complexity and
thereby gain a measure of perspective and distance from this most
intractable of psychic states.A bold and fascinating discourse !! on
the inner structure of madness. Symington's analysis of the polarity
between narcissism and emotional freedom is highly original, and the
clinical vignettes are lucid and striking.' -Anne Alvarez, PhD.
Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic
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