A bestseller that has been must reading for hundreds of thousands of readers, this powerful book examines how narcissistic parents form and deform the lives of their talented children.
“Rare and compelling in its compassion and its unassuming eloquence…her examples are so vivid and so ordinary that they touch the hurt child in us all.”
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“An unpretentious little book with an amazing impact…. Many readers find themselves portrayed with an accuracy and empathy that seem uncanny, as if its author had been a silent, unseen witness to their childhoods, [and] their innermost and secret selves.”
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“Narcissism has rarely been written about with the clarity and quiet insight of this modest, thought-provoking work that is remarkably free of psychoanalytic jargon…Miller’s succinct little book makes an eloquent case for psychoanalytic insight.”
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