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Summary: Scary...
Review: I was reading this book and I felt as though I was reading about my own, selfish mother and father. All the behavior patterns that followed due to the selfish, painful acts were mirrored through the child- meaning me. I learned a lot from this book and would recommend it to anyone with parents who so self-absorbed!
Rating: 
Summary: Very helpful and validating
Review: Ms. Golomb's clearly lacks the capacity to see her parents in anything other than a negative light. If, as she says at one point, no one is black or white, why does she fail through 262 pages to demonstrate this with her parents, who, along with the author, are the primary characters of the book. The writing is mediocre; there is too little perspective; too little guidance; too much psychobabble; and the metaphors Ms. Golomb is fond of using more often than not are either confusing or utterly miss the mark. I'm glad this woman is not my therapist.
Rating:
Summary: Outstanding
Review: Elan Golomb has written one of the best books I have yet to read on parental narcissism. Telling one's OWN story takes courage..and this book was her defining moment in breaking the bonds of narcissism in her own family.
The fact that she was able to get past the professional role of clinical psychologist and share herself with us was to me very inspiring.
Golomb deals with the depression which haunts survivors and explains in the final chapter how it all comes together when the survivor finds, through being present, that she can become aware of the negative internal voice (introject) and learn to turn that into a more positive interaction.
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