"Healthy Narcissism"
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A01=Li-Ching Hung
Author_Cary Stacy Smith
Author_Li-Ching Hung
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
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Marquis de Sade
Overt Narcissists
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Therapeutic Approaches
Product details
- ISBN 9781440874062
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2021
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this book, a psychologist and a professor detail the history, psychology, and effects of this little-studied condition that has altered individuals and societies worldwide, arguing that the disorder deserves its own classification.
Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm in 1964 developed the term "malignant narcissism," believing it to be the worst form of psychopathology, a disorder that essentially epitomized evil. Malignant narcissism, however, has never been identified as a clinical condition in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; instead, it is seen as a conglomeration of several other disorders.
Yet researchers since Fromm have described malignant narcissists as unique in their callous nature and proclivity to extreme violence, with a component of sadism bringing them pleasure when inflicting pain. The largest concern about malignant narcissists is that "some have the ability and wherewithal to rise to great positions of power and influence" and to affect large numbers of people.
Authors Smith and Hung explain the differences between malignant narcissists, "everyday" narcissists, and psychopaths, illustrating these conditions with vignettes of historic public figures and people in popular culture, among others.
Cary Stacy Smith, PhD, is a forensic psychologist at Green Bay Correctional Institution in Green Bay, WI, providing therapy to men among the 1,000 inmates there.
Li-Ching Hung, PhD, is professor and dissertation chair at Northcentral University.
