It draws from her experiences as a practitioner working with patients at her Harley Street, London, practice. However, she also brings to bear her own personal experiences coping with a narcissistic abuser.
It's designed not as a text book but as an easy to use self-help guide to understand and move on from toxic, abusive relationship.
It will show readers how to identify if they are the subject of an narcissistic abuser, plus the complicated ramifications of being in such a relationship.
Dr Davies also shares tools that will be required to help the victim of such an abusive partner to move on, and to hopefully end destructive relationship patterns for good.
The book also tells you exactly what is entailed here, Narcissistic Personality Disorder or NPD.
The person who has NPD might show the following traits: An overwhelming sense of grandiosity, with expectations of preferential treatment or service from other people, or institutions.
They'll generally require a lot of positive regard and positive feedback, plus admiration and worship from others.
They are arrogant, selfish, but are often anxious, too. They lack genuine empathy for others, lacking in any fellowfeel toward other people, they cannot accept blame when anything goes wrong, they like to use blame transfer when they need to blame others when they have done wrong or made a mistake.
They often have problems with addictive behaviour and are unable to form or maintain any meaningful long term relationships.
They can be aggressive, and subjected to unreasonable rages and cannot control their anger. They also have problems accepting responsibility for problems and can be very manipulative.
Dr Davies points out that because NPD is often linked to exceptionally early emotional and psychological damage it is a very difficult condition to treat.
The book also helps the victim of the NPD abuser to work on their self-esteem problems, learn what healthy boundaries are and learn how to enforce them, how to address unhelpful thinking, how to employ tools and coping strategies such as emotional regulation, the use of mindfulness and the technique of grounding.
It's an important book and is a must have if you are a victim of an abusive NPD partner, spouse, family member or spouse, if you are a therapist dealing with NPD issues or, indeed, if you think you might have NPD.
It's published by Matador at £14.99. It just might be the best £14.99 that you will ever spend.
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