Cole Pearce

Three and a half stars seems about right. This book is "peer counselling" by an ordinary amateur student of human nature who has escaped from an abusive relationship with a narcissist. Unfortunately, because he's writing from one predominant experience with a few echoes in his own life, what he says about the relationship is too general to be very helpful. Pearce lacks the clinical experience to say at what point ordinary selfishness crosses the line into narcissism. A reader is likely to feel that everyone person knows, including the reader perself, is being described as a narcissist and all relationships are abusive. So, full points for reassuring the reader that other people have been mistreated in the same ways the reader was, but no points for helping the reader know when to end a relationship, calll out behavior and demand a change, or accept the behavior.… (plus d'informations)