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The author, Neville Symington, has written several well-respected psychoanalytic works and has now released a new book that delves into the nature of madness and sanity. Symington argues that narcissism is the core psychopathology of our times and explores this concept in depth. He criticizes psychiatry for focusing solely on symptoms and psychotherapy for being superficial and unproductive. The book offers a unique perspective on the narcissistic pattern and includes clinical examples to support its claims. Overall, it is praised as a bold and thought-provoking analysis of madness and its inner workings.
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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