A Psychoanalytic Reflection on Narcissistic Parenthood and its Ramifications: The Forgotten Echo proposes a new perspective on narcissism, focusing on its destructive impact within relationships.
Hila Yahalom discusses the patterns and ramifications of traumatizing upbringing by narcissistic parents, exploring the resulting development of a defensive-behavioral pattern and personality structures in the child which constitutes a mirror image of narcissism. Yahalom assesses a wide range of psychoanalytic theories in presenting a broad outlook on narcissism, its roots, and the manner by which pathological narcissism may manifest in interpersonal relationships as -narcissistic abuse-. This book considers the narcissist-s perverted occupation of the psychic space of others, with both participants usually blind to the phenomenon - a blindness that is reenacted in therapy, affecting its course. This book contains clinical vignettes from the author-s work as well as examples fr
