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Narcissism
I am a wide reader in psychological literature--reading Freud, Reich, Jung etc. I noticed that one of the reviews suggested that Lowen's book is dated because modern psychiatry does not take the Oedipal/Electra complexes seriously. This is news to me. I found Lowen's book to be the best direct, no-nonsense description of the narcissistic personality I've read. He is not dated--and I hope this book goes into reprint someday.

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Look At Yourself!
When I first bought this book, I was excited, because I knew that reading it would help me to solve some of my biggest problems, in dealing with people, or more accurately, myself.

But, it took 3 years for me to pick this book up from underneath an end table, where I had hid it, because I was in denial of my true self. To face my true self, on the level that I had anticipated that I would be facing myself, meant in essence, dying an endless death.

And at some point, I had decided, "Well, I have died that death a million times over. So, I might as well read it.

Then, I read it 4 times, as I endlessly wrote in the margins, and accepted so much that I had anticipated was too scary to see, that wow! Seven years later, as I look at this book, bolding sitting amongst my read books, I see how far I have gone, because I accepted my greatest pains. I faced my flaws. I said "so what," to many of my past disempowering habits. And I just decided to turn my greatest pains into what drives me to be passionate.

I recommend this book to anyone who is ready to endlessly grow.

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Simply a jem!
One of the most eye-opening books i have ever read. Having read previous revious i must disagree, it is definetly a self help book. The manner in wich Lowen writes flows like a river. This book is so rich in infromation, that i gurantee every one will find their reflaction in more than a couple of pages. It also gives a very deep understanding of what our culture is based on. I once heard the following "If multiculturalism is as thick as multiculturalist think, there would be either total silence or total war"! We are not as different as we might want to think.