The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times

Author: Christopher Lasch

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Paperback:
ISBN 10: 0393302636
ISBN 13: 978-0393302639

"Even more valuable than its widely praised predecessor, The Culture of Narcissism." ―John W. Aldridge

Faced with an escalating arms race, rising crime and terrorism, environmental deterioration, and long-term economic decline, people have retreated from commitments that presuppose a secure and orderly world. In his latest book, Christopher Lasch, the renowned historian and social critic, powerfully argues that self-concern, so characteristic of our time, has become a search for psychic survival.