Phil Mollon, PhD, is a psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society's Institute of Psychoanalysis. He trained in psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic, as well as in Clinical Psychology at the University of Leeds, and for 37 years worked full time in the NHS. The limitations of conventional listening and talking forms of therapy led to his ongoing search for a better way of to help emotionally troubled people, exploring both EMDR and then energy psychotherapy, but always with a psychoanalytic lens. He has served as President of the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychotherapy. Pathologies of the Self is his twelfth book.

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Pathologies of the Self draws on almost 40 years of clinical practice to explore the nature and structure of human identity. In this fascinating book Phil Mollon explores narcissistic phenomena in both the clinic and everyday life, demonstrating the illusory nature of the self, and showing how, beneath our defences, we are all 'borderline'.

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Preface and summary 1 Narcissism, delusion, and the development of the structural self 2 The realm of the imaginary 3 The imaginary self 4 Narcissism and sexual trauma 5 The roots and structure of narcissistic disturbance 6 Borderline states