As A Psychotherapist---A Very Helpful Book To My Clients | Freeing Yourself from the Narcissist in Your...

I Now Handle Narcissists With Great Confidence | Freeing Yourself from the Narcissist in Your Life | Linda Martinez-Lewi

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	• Freeing Yourself from the Narcissist in Your Life Linda Martinez-Lewi Tarcher, 2008 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 20 reviews view larger image
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A Must for Dealing with Narcissists and Moving Forward

I Have found this very well written compelling book with many wonderful stories and clinical vignettes to be a marvelous source for understanding the inner workings of the narcissistic personality disorder. Dr. Martinez-Lewi offers an upclose, in your face look at the narcissist. She also provides substantial specific ways of dealing with these personality disorders which made me feel victorious and allowed me to maintain my self respect. There is a spiritual perspective to this book as well that offers the reader more opportunities to move beyond narcissism toward inner healing and peace.

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As A Psychotherapist---A Very Helpful Book To My Clients

I have been a psychotherapist for a number of years. Many of my clients come to therapy due to severe emotional pain in their personal relationships, particularly spouses and partners. A growing number of my clients are dealing with individuals who appear to have it all. They can be irresistible, vibrantly magnetic, and cleverly manipulative. Many of these spouses and partners (men and women) are narcissistic personalities. I hear stories from clients who have tried for many years to make these relationships with narcissists work. They tell stories of emotional abuse, deceit, coldness and frequent betrayals. In addition to my study of narcissistic personalities and clinical work, I find that there are a few excellent books on the subject that are accessible to everyone. This current book by Dr. Linda Martinez-Lewi is a fine example of a clinician who assists the reader in identifying exactly how and why the narcissist operates the way he(she)does.She explains his tremendous self entitlement, ruthlessness and lack of empathy. The author presents many tools for handling the narcissist successfully, combining numerous clinical vignettes from her clinical practice. I highly recommend this book to all of my clients and to all of those who encounter narcissists in their lives. We walk in a world today where narcissists are handsomely rewarded. This book is a great contribution in helping us handle the narcissists around us with confidence and a healthy sense of self worth.

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I Now Handle Narcissists With Great Confidence

A few years ago I ended a business partnership with an individual who turned out to be an excessively self-entitled, self-absorbed narcissist. He and I graduated from the same dental school. Stan (I'll call him) received the highest academic honors in dental school and was considered one of the best students during his professional training. He appeared to be very competent and seemed to have a gift for relating to people. His portfolio was impeccable. We put up the money for all of our equipment, the office lease, and personnel. At first, things went smoothly. After a few months I began to see a pattern in Stan that was troubling. He was contantly criticizing the staff, belittling them in front of others. I discovered that he was overcharging for the work he was doing and insisting that patients have expensive dental work that they didn't need. I tactfully called Stan on this and he became furious. A number of times he showed up late and expected me to pick up the slack. When I asked him about this behavior, he went ballistic as if it was my role to automatically take over for him. Finally, it became impossible to work with him. At the end, he insisted that he had paid for all of the equipment and tried to stiff me with this bill and payment of the lease. He ended up with more money than he was entitled to. Since that time I have formed a new dental group and it is doing well. There are no narcissists in this office. I have made sure of this. Don't get me wrong. There are many marvelous hard-working, brilliant dentists that are not narcissistic. After my experience with Stan, I studied narcissistic personalities and learned about their childhood origins, their psychodynamics (what makes them tick) and how to deal with them. I have recently read this excellent book on the narcissistic personality disorder by Dr. Linda Martinez-Lewi. The case studies and vignettes from her clinical practice are invaluable. The author provides the reader with a variety of strategies he/she can use for identifying and handling them with great success. This is one of the best resources on this prevalent personality disorder of our time, the narcissist.

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This Book Goes to the Narcissist's Core--A Great Help

I am a psychotherapist who works with a variety of clients. Some of them are dealing with spouses and ex-spouses and partners who are narcissistic personalities. I have read a number of books on narcissism and have studied the subject. Besides her clinical training and work with clients, the author has a deep empathic comprehension of the psychological suffering individuals experience who are being constantly wounded by a narcissist. The author provides us with an in-depth view of the narcissist, wearing an elaborate mask that charms and beguiles the world and the dark unconscious narcissistic core that contains endless rage, treacherous deceit, and concealed paranoia. Dr. Martinez-Lewi presents a variety of strategic methods for successfully dealing with the narcissistic personality. We live in a narcissistically driven society and must deal with narcissists frequently these days. I recommend this book to all of my clients. It has helped them immensely.

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Great Insights into the Narcissist: Getting Beyond Heartbreak

I recently broke up with the woman I was about to marry. We had been going together for a couple of years. Rosalie (that's the name I will use) was one of the most beautiful women I have ever met. I was attracted to her charm and fell in love with her right away. I knew quite soon that she could be temperamental and demanding but I was so taken with her that I ignored her character flaws. As we began to date more seriously, Rosalie became more critical of me and more demanding. I would catch her in lies all the time. I kept making excuses for her. She asked for a large sum of money to purchase a watch that she had been eyeing for a long time. I gave her the money and she promised to pay me back. She never did. I also found out that she was cheating on me with two other guys. Rosalie never thought about anyone but herself. She hurt me so many times with her extreme self absorption and her expecting me to be perfect. Even when I did everything she asked, it wasn't good enough. She'd scream at me and tell me I was a worthless idiot. Finally, she threw me away. I was so desperate, I didn't think I could live without her. I having been seeing a good psychotherapist. This helped me realize that Rosalie is a narcissist, that she suffers from a serious personality disorder. I have done a lot of work in therapy and am in the course of recovering from this loss. The therapist recommended that I read a book by Dr. Linda Martinez-Lewi called "Freeing Yourself from the Narcissist in Your Life". This book offers a clear analysis with many compelling examples of the narcissistic personality disorder. The author gave me a number of tools to use when dealing with narcissists. She described Rosalie perfectly. I really enjoyed the marvelous stories about famous narcissists like Pablo Picasso and Frank Lloyd. I highly recommmend this terrific book. It has helped me to heal and find more peace in my life.

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Combining clinical analysis with psychological profiles of famous narcissists, here is an indispensable guide to recognizing, coping with, and ultimately overcoming the destructive behavior of narcissists. Everybody needs some healthy narcissism. But in a society obsessed with appearance, wealth, and status, it's easy for problematic narcissists to thrive. Many people who seem to "have it all" are suffering from one of the most common- and overlooked-personality disorders today: high level narcissism. Typified by an obsession with perfection, a desperate need for admiration, and a willingness to use and exploit others for personal gain, high level narcissism can spell devastation for anyone who crosses the narcissist's path. In Freeing Yourself from the Narcissist in Your Life, psychotherapist Linda Martinez-Lewi presents an in-depth and supportive plan for identifying, understanding, and dealing with high level narcissistic behavior in those close to you. Martinez-Lewi helps you to liberate yourself from draining personal relationships with narcissists, and shows how to regain a sense of peace, balance, and well-being. Drawing on detailed profiles of famous narcissists, including Pablo Picasso, Frank Lloyd Wright, Armand Hammer, and Ayn Rand, as well as expertly rendered case studies from her private practice as a psychotherapist, Martinez-Lewi shows how to: - understand where narcissistic behavior comes from; u learn to spot narcissistic traits, even in the early stages of relationships; - realize why attempting to change a narcissist is fruitless; and - protect yourself from the narcissist's opportunism, manipulative behavior, and lack of empathy.

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