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Gerald Alper is the author of eleven books including Portrait of the Artist as a Young Patient: Psychodynamic Studies of the Creative Personality, The Puppeteers: Studies of Obsessive Control, Narcissistic Giving: A Study of People Who Cheat in Relationships, and Control Games: Avoiding Intimacy on the Singles Scene. He is a psychotherapist who has been in private practice in Manhattan the past twenty years. He is a reviewer for the Journal of...

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In Narcissistic Giving, Gerald Alper chronicles the unconscious defenses, gambits and strategies by which fightened people seek to escape the imagined terrors of relating to one another and to themselves.

In his latest work Professor Alper explores how his innovative concept of narcissistic giving-that is, the dysfunctional art in which one gives without actually giving & shy, --manifests itself all too often in the social transactions and interactions that compose everyay existence. This sense of grandiosely promising a world of happiness and satisfaction while giving so very little makes narcissistic giving not only an apt description for a p...

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A contribution to understanding the power operations between people on a non-political, interpersonal, eclectic and psychodynamic basis. This study deals with issues of self-renewal, personal marketing, making changes and taking charge of the personal franchise we all have.

Explores the pluses and minuses of contemporary psychotherapy training. By the author of "Narcissistic Giving", this work provides a memoir of Gerald Alper's training days as well as an overview of the pitfalls and dangers in contemporary training and practice.

Consistently showing sharply piercing acumen, New York City psychotherapist GERALD ALPER pierces the husk shielding the often-denied 'dynamic unconscious.' Equipped intellectually with a flashlight of the 'psychodynamic perspective, ' ALPER revealingly illumines nooks and crannies of the edifice of the dynamic unconscious. Readers' attention is focused psychodynamically on contextuality and subjectivity as integral components of the equation o...

In this insightful exploration of the personal, social, and cultural triggers that give rise to paranoid reactions in our everyday lives, psychotherapist Gerald Alper helps readers to recognize a potentially debilitating problem that is unfortunately all too common in our stress-filled society. Through a series of telling vignettes culled from the experiences of his own patients, Alper shows how ordinary people can lose their way in a world of...

Self Defense in a Narcissistic World explores in depth a new, basically unrecognized and highly prevalent everyday addiction: power trips. The disastrous consequences of this simple, but insidious, largely unconscious cultural and psychological phenomenon are candidly revealed by author Gerald Alper.

Why, in over thirty years of private practice, after listening to hundreds and hundreds of patients' dreams, had I not once encountered the presence of God, the joyful fantasy of an afterlife, the radiant appearance of an angel? Why in the outpouring and welter of wishes, secrets and hopes to which a therapist regularly attends, was heaven never mentioned?" -from the Preface "Gerald Alper dares to enter the difficult area of spiri...

Explores the pluses and minuses of contemporary psychotherapy training. By the author of "Narcissistic Giving", this work provides a memoir of Gerald Alper's training days as well as an overview of the pitfalls and dangers in contemporary training and practice.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Patient, the first book of non-fiction written by Gerald Alper, is also the first serious attempt to explore in depth the dynamics of the yet-to-be recognized, unfulfilled and usually perplexed fledgling artist.