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The Search for the Real Self: Unmasking the Personality Disorders of Our Age [Paperback]

James F. Masterson (Author)

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Paperback: 244 pages
Publisher: The Free Press; Reprint edition (1 Mar 1990)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0029202922
ISBN-13: 978-0029202920
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.7 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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- #55 in Books > Science & Nature > Medicine > Diseases & Disorders > Mental Diseases & Disorders

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Personality disorders - borderline, narcissistic and schizoid - have become the classic psychological disorders of our age. Outwardly successful, charming and powerful, personality-disordered individuals have long confounded their colleagues, family, lovers and employees - as well as mental health professionals. The author helps the reader understand them. After describing how the healthy real self develops and functions, he explains what can go wrong. Drawing on case histories, he shows how the false self behaves in relationships and on the job, and then delineates appropriate treatments, offering real hope for cure.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A bit academic, but will help your self discovery, 16 May 1998

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This is the book that Dr. Drew on "LoveLine" recommends to his listeners.

This book will help you understand your behaviours in relationships and the driving force behind your behaviours. Primarily it deals with narcissism disorder, borderline peronality disorder, fear intimacy, abandonment depression and separation anxiety and how these underlying disorders manifests itself in your relationships. He describes the theories which explain the behaviour and then describes real life cases of people with these disorders and how they conduct themselves in relationships. After reading this, you will better understand your defenses that help the false self prevail over the real self and how to develop the real self so that you can express yourself genuinely in your life. You will also know how to recognize these behaviours in others and know which people to watch out for and know when you are engaging in descructive relationships. It really gives you some insight into yourself and others' actions. This is a great book for anyone looking to engage in some self therapy and discovering oneself. I highly recommend it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Rare, a very good practical and down to earth book about finding your real self, 14 Mar 2010

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If you ever feel that you put an act on in front of people or that you don't truer to your values this is the book for you. Unlike the many other "pseudo psychology" self - help books that use vague, overblown language about the 'mystical' dream-like experience of finding oneself with easy answers and no results of which I have read many, this is the real deal. Very practical and down to earth, written by a very considerate and professional psychiatrist. Just a very good book, easy to understand that I'm sure you won't regret buying.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Our Age and the Real Self, 5 Aug 2001

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Masterson may be on to something in the title of this book (as was Lasch). A hundred years from now, "personality disorders" may be thought of as a cultural artefact, the product of mass delusions. That the book tackles an enormous range of human behaviour under the same clinical heading weakens its usefulness. Still, it is an interesting tour de horizon of personality disorders, the functions of the False Self, and the ways to revive, nourish, sustain, and "re-activate" the dilapidated True Self (rarely successfully - something the book cheerfully omits to mention)...

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5.0 out of 5 stars at last
This book was excellent and just what I needed to hep me understand the difference between who I adapted to being and the real me. Read more

Published 8 months ago by CF Dorrian

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book
A best selling book and now I know why. It deseves it. A brilliant book to discover your own strengths and weaknesses

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good,but not enough info on adolescent narcissism.
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Published on 10 Nov 1998

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