Full name: The Narcissistic Family: Diagnosis and Treatment

Author: Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Psychology Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780787908706 0787908703

In this compelling book, the authors present an innovative therapeutic model for understanding and treating adults from emotionally abusive or neglectful families - families the authors call narcissistic. Narcissistic families have a parental system that is, for whatever reason (job stress, alcoholism, drug abuse, mental illness, physical disability, lack of parenting skills, self-centered immaturity), primarily involved in getting its own needs met. The children in such narcissistic family systems try to earn love, attention, and approval by satisfying their parents' needs, thus never developing the the ability to recognize their own needs or create strategies to getting them met. By outlining the theoretical framework of their model and using dozens of illustrative clinical examples, the authors clearly illuminate specific practice guidelines for treating these individuals. Similar books: Narcissism by Alexander Lowen Trapped in the Mirror by Elan Golomb Children of the Self-Absorbed by Nina W. Brown They F*** You Up by Oliver James On Becoming a Person by Carl R. Rogers Vital Lies, Simple Truths by Daniel Goleman Why Is It Always About You? by Sandy Hotchkiss 50 Psychology Classics by Tom Butler-Bowdon Psychology by Gillian Butler Introduction to psychology by Dennis Coon Introducing Psychology by Nigel Benson Toward a Psychology of Being by Abraham Maslow 50 Psychology Ideas You Really Need to Know by Adrian Furnham He by Robert A. Johnson A New Guide to Rational Living by Albert Ellis The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel A. van der Kolk The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Quiet by Susan Cain Why Does He Do That? by Lundy Bancroft