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LOVE, LUCK, AND NARCISSISM; WHEN POPULAR CULTURE GETS IT WRONG is a provocative and eye-opening series of essays on topics ranging from positivity, anger, and romantic love to vulnerability, empathy, and healthy religion. After working as a psychologist with people from different backgrounds for over fifty years, she has made a number of discoveries that run counter to popular culture. She challenges the universal validity of positive thinking, reclaims anger as fuel that can lead to positive action, demystifies romantic love, and reframes some aspects of narcissism as healthy. She also views Luck or Chance as vastly underrated, a perspective that leads to more gratitude and less self-blame. Piorkowski combines accessible psychology with practical guidance and case studies. One reviewer describes her as: ""a pithy and highly readable guide.""

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Dr. Geraldine K. Piorkowski is a retired clinical psychologist who received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Throughout her lengthy career, she worked in a variety of academic and clinical settings on the East coast and in the Midwest for over fifty years. Besides holding the position of Chair of the Psychology Department at Roosevelt University, Chicago, she was also on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Northwestern Medical School in Chicago. In addition, she was director of the counseling centers at two, large universities in the Midwest. She is the author of many psychological articles and two books on romantic love: ""Too Close for Comfort: Exploring the Risks of Intimacy"" and ""Adult Children of Divorce: Confused Love Seekers."" Currently, she is on a local Board of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society and writes blog postings for ""Psychology Today."" She lives in Chicago with her husband of 66 years. ""Love, Luck, and Narcissism: When Popular Culture Gets It Wrong"" is a second edition of ""Beyond Pipe Dreams and Platitudes: Insights on Love, Luck, and Narcissism from a Longtime Psychologist,"" published in 2021, with a new title.

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