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Informationen zum Autor Gerald Alper, M.S. is a practicing psychotherapist since 1979 and fellow of the American Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Klappentext Self Defense in a Narcissistic World explores in depth a new, basically unrecognized and highly prevalent everyday addiction: power trips. The disastrous consequences of this simple, but insidious, largely unconscious cultural and psychological phenomenon are candidly revealed by author Gerald Alper. Zusammenfassung Self Defense in a Narcissistic World explores in depth a new! basically unrecognized and highly prevalent everyday addiction: power trips. The disastrous consequences of this simple! but insidious! largely unconscious cultural and psychological phenomenon are candidly revealed by author Gerald Alper. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Everyday Examples: The Untouchable; Fighting the Enemy; Defensive Benefits from Demonizing the Enemy; And Baby Makes Three; God and Power; The Unreturned Telephone Call; The Letter; The Creation of Nothing; The Dynamics; Benefits of Creating Nothing Chapter 3 Therapy Trips: The Differences of Power; The Patient; The Therapist; "I Never Thought of You as a Man Before"; Turning the Tables; Abandoning the Therapist; Depriving the Therapist; "I'm From Missouri- Show Me"; "I Want a New Contract"; Not Relating Chapter 4 Strategies and Dynamics of Power Trips: Characteristics of Power Trips; Painting Someone Into a Corner; Hierarchical Relating; Example 1; Example 2; Example 3: The One Hundred Greatest Minds of the Century; At Home With the Sopranos; Dynamics of Int Chapter 5 The World We Live In: Trial By Jury; The Ultimate Power Trip; Postmodern Politics; The Fate of the Politics of Power and the New Millennium; September 11: Though the Lens of a Psychotherapist Chapter 6 Conclusion Chapter 7 References
