Gerald Alper

Self Defense in a Narcissistic World

The New Everyday Addiction to Power Trips

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780761827962
• ISBN-10: 076182796X
• Artikelnr.: 22416984

Autorenporträt

Gerald Alper, M.S. is a practicing psychotherapist since 1979 and fellow of the American Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

Inhaltsangabe

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