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Re-Visioning Narcissism: Healing Heresies for Polarized Times

by Gary Rosenthal

Greek poets were writing about narcissism over 2000 years ago. They gave us the myth of Narcissus, from which narcissism was first named. Yet like an under-reported, contagious virus, it continues to spread into all the nooks and crannies of our culture, even its White House. And when American psychiatry’s official manual estimates that its prevalence in Americans could be as low as zero percent, it should be evident that narcissism is being narrowly conceived. And hence, badly in need of a “re-visioning.” The survival of American democracy—and the fate of our species—may depend on it.
— Gary Rosenthal on Re-Visioning Narcissism: Healing Heresies for Polarized Times

JACK CANFIELD, Author, Chicken Soup for the Soul series

“I love this book! It’s really important stuff, a total statement of where we are now – and the underlying cause of what’s wrong with everything. Gary Rosenthal is modern-day bard, a poet/wise person all rolled into one, and he’s also a psychotherapist. He brings healing and cultural critique, while serving as a custodian of our culture’s storehouse of myths. And he provides all these things in his new, nonfiction book, Re-Visioning Narcissism: Healing Heresies for Polarized Times.

“This is a very profound book. Normally I would skim a book before doing an interview when I’ve heard it’s good, as his is, but I couldn’t stop turning the pages. What I love about it, too, is that it creates a great deal of awareness about what we’re facing in America. It’s amazingly elucidating – I just felt wiser and uplifted from knowing what the book shares. So I want to congratulate him on writing in a way that produces that effect.”