Neville Symington approaches the well-trodden subject of narcissism and offers us fresh insights from his long clinical experience with patients suffering from this disorder. He has come to understand the narcissistic subject, not only from the well-known Kleinian instinctual grandiosity/manic defense standpoint or from the trauma-deficit conception of Fairbairn, Winnicott, Balint, and kohut, but also from the unique perspective of profound ontological insecurity.
