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"Neville Symington challenged Kohut's belief in positive narcissism, arguing that “we do not get positive narcissism without self-hatred”,[8] or negative narcissism. While one could talk of healthy self-confidence and positive self-esteem or self-confidence, he considered that “it is meaningless to talk about healthy self-centredness”[9] - that being the core of narcissism. Nevertheless pop psychology has taken up the idea of healthy narcissism as an aid to self-assertion and success.[10] It has indeed been suggested that it is useful to think of a continuum of narcissism, from the healthy to the pathological, with stable narcissism and destructive narcissism as stopping-points in between.[11]"
To me this gives the impression that healthy narcissism has been pushed into the realm of pop psychology and has no merit in psychoanalysis today. Regardless of any questions about the validity of psychoanalysis, I think the wording could be changed, or a sentence added, to change this connotation, as Self psychology is still a popular and influential psychoanalytic school and the very popular Intersubjective approach draws very strong roots in Kohut's work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:304:CC09:3210:A92D:A86C:D2DA:6F8 ( talk) 16:16, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I propose to merge this article into Narcissism, and redirect to a subheading. This makes for an interesting subject, but would come more to its right in the broader subject of narcissism as a whole. It would also help if we had some more authors, or a more wide variety of sources on the subject. Martijn Hoekstra ( talk) 17:26, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
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"Neville Symington challenged Kohut's belief in positive narcissism, arguing that “we do not get positive narcissism without self-hatred”,[8] or negative narcissism. While one could talk of healthy self-confidence and positive self-esteem or self-confidence, he considered that “it is meaningless to talk about healthy self-centredness”[9] - that being the core of narcissism. Nevertheless pop psychology has taken up the idea of healthy narcissism as an aid to self-assertion and success.[10] It has indeed been suggested that it is useful to think of a continuum of narcissism, from the healthy to the pathological, with stable narcissism and destructive narcissism as stopping-points in between.[11]"
To me this gives the impression that healthy narcissism has been pushed into the realm of pop psychology and has no merit in psychoanalysis today. Regardless of any questions about the validity of psychoanalysis, I think the wording could be changed, or a sentence added, to change this connotation, as Self psychology is still a popular and influential psychoanalytic school and the very popular Intersubjective approach draws very strong roots in Kohut's work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:304:CC09:3210:A92D:A86C:D2DA:6F8 ( talk) 16:16, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I propose to merge this article into Narcissism, and redirect to a subheading. This makes for an interesting subject, but would come more to its right in the broader subject of narcissism as a whole. It would also help if we had some more authors, or a more wide variety of sources on the subject. Martijn Hoekstra ( talk) 17:26, 30 January 2010 (UTC)