Fragile Self: The Structure of Narcissistic Disturbance and Its Therapy

by Phil Mollon, Malcolm Pines (Foreword)

In The Fragile Self Dr. Phil Mollon, a respected British psychotherapist, discusses disorders of the self from a variety of points of view, drawing particular attention to the work of Kohut and describing its strengths and limitations. Mollon shows that p

Genres: Psychology

220 pages, Hardcover

First published July 7, 1977

Reviews

[Birdie Brietling · Rating 1 out of 5]

Basic common sensical information hidden between lengthy sentences with unnecessary big words quotes from old psychologists talking about theories that don’t exist anymore and also don’t make sense.

I was expecting the author to talk beyond the basics of narcissism and educate us on what it is but he rather just spoke about narcissism being about “feeling superior” and “arrogant” which is false because not every narcissist is arrogant. Some are very humble, furthermore someone can be very arrogant and not be a narcissist.