Freeing Yourself from the Narcissist in Your Life
Linda Martinez-Lewi, . . Tarcher, $23.95 (240pp) ISBN 978-1-58542-624-9
This book’s title makes a promise it doesn’t keep. Martinez-Lewi, a marriage and family therapist, devotes more space to describing what she calls the “classic high-level narcissist”: charming, manipulative, needing to maintain a facade of perfection and power. But one can’t always free oneself from narcissists (at work, for instance) except emotionally, which is the focus of her advice, when she gets to it. For the first 160-odd pages, the reader is treated to a melodramatic, vitriolic and metaphor-heavy (“we have been through the forests and thickets of the inner and outer world of the narcissistic personality”) outpouring of loathing for these
Reviewed on: 11/12/2007
Genre: Nonfiction
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