Volume 23, Number 15 · September 30, 1976
The Narcissist Society
By Christopher Lasch
Decadence: Radical Nostalgia, Narcissism, and Decline in the Seventies
by Jim Hougan
William Morrow, 251 pp., $7.95
Growing (Up) at Thirty-Seven
by Jerry Rubin
M. Evans & Co., 208 pp., $7.95
Three Journeys: An Automythology
by Paul Zweig
Basic Books, 182 pp., $8.95
The Awareness Trap: Self-Absorption Instead of Social Change
by Edwin Schur
Quadrangle, 213 pp., $7.95
Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism
by Otto F. Kernberg MD
Jason Aronson, 361 pp., $15.00
It is no secret that Americans have lost faith in politics. The retreat to purely personal satisfactions—such as they are—is one of the main themes of the Seventies. A growing despair of changing society—even of understanding it—has generated on the one hand a revival of old-time religion, on the other a cult of expanded consciousness, health, and personal 'growth.'
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