What exactly is narcissism?
An incurable disease set to ruin your future?
A habit to be curbed? Or a trait to be nurtured?
And how can you tell if your partner, your child or even you are a narcissist? Insightful and revolutionary, The Narcissist Test answers these questions and more.
In this groundbreaking book, clinical psychologist Dr Craig Malkin offers a radically new picture of narcissism, defining it as a spectrum of self-importance, and explaining that everyone falls somewhere on the scale between utter selflessness and total arrogance. He reveals why it is essential to embrace some degree of narcissism in order to maintain a healthy sense of self-worth.
Using a new tool - the Narcissism Test - Dr Malkin guides us through the process of rating our narcissism level, and offers advice for promoting healthy narcissism in ourselves as well as in our partners and children.
With guidance for those struggling with unhealthy narcissism and for those who live with, sleep beside, work among or are related to unhealthy narcissists, Dr Malkin's redefinition of
'narcissism' shows us why being called a 'narcissist' isn't necessarily such a bad thing after all.
Dr Craig Malkin is a clinical psychologist and Instructor of Psychology for Harvard Medical School.