After a brief meeting with a woman I’d just met, I returned to my apartment and was surprised to find her email waiting for me.  She accused me of having been rude and wasted no time in telling me. Bemused, I shrugged, having had the same impression of her. The difference between u

Elizabeth Lunbeck’s new book The Americanization of Narcissism, explores the fault line between healthy and unhealthy narcissism.  (Me, Myself, and ID,” by Laura Kipnis, Harper’s Magazine, pgs. 80)  In it she explores the question of narcissism’s origin.  Is it nurtured by