Narcissism: A New Theory

by Neville Symington

Overview

In this book, Neville Symington approaches the well-trodden subject of narcissism, offers us fresh insights from his long clinical experience with patients suffering from this disorder, and sketches some highlights in the history of the concept of narcissism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855750470
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/31/1993
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Neville Symington is a member of the British and Australian Psychoanalytical Societies. His books include Narcissism: A New Theory, The Making of a Psychotherapist, A Pattern of Madness and Becoming a Person Through Psychoanalysis (all published by Karnac Books); The Analytic Experience, and The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion (written with Joan Symington). He has a private psychoanalytic practice in New South Wales, Australia.

Table of Contents

Foreword — Preface — Introduction — Setting the stage — The composite self — The narcissistic option — The intentionality of the self — The erotization of the self — The phenomenology of narcissism — The relation between trauma and the narcissistic option — The reversal of narcissism — The relation of this theory to other psychoanalytic theories — The effects of narcissism on character