Encyclopedia of the Narcissistic Abuser

A six-volume encyclopedia on narcissistic abuse: the concept’s history, coercive control, social contexts and therapeutic approaches, with a reference dictionary.

There is no shortage of books on narcissistic abuse. What did not exist was a single work bringing together what psychoanalysis, empirical psychology, sociology and clinical practice actually say about it — including where they disagree and where the evidence runs thin. This six-volume encyclopedia does exactly that: the genealogy of the concept from the myth of Narcissus to the DSM-5, the personality structure and mechanisms of the manipulator, the victim's vulnerabilities and the phases of coercive control, the sociology of abuse across family, workplace, politics and cults, the therapeutic approaches with their actual level of validation, and a 174-entry dictionary. 1 258 pages, every figure sourced and every source verified.