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Dr. Richard Grossman:
Hi everybody,

I just watched the 2013 film documentary, “Salinger”.   Both narcissism and PTSD are central themes.  Although the documentary was largely panned by critics, for students of narcissism, as many of us are, the film is worth a look.  All reviews are welcome!

Richard   

moonlight60:
Hello Dr. G ,

The 'Salinger" Documentary sounds great....


It is true there is a connection between Narcissism and PTSD....I lived it...

I will refrain from counting the ways...those days of victimhood are over...

Instead I have found compassion for myself (work in progress) and my experience with Narcissism..

My life is finally free ...with no regret...no more asking what would my life had been without the suffering...

I put my arms around pain and suffering and embrace both for the lessons learned.....

Everyone has their own capacity for forgiveness and love...

This I accept in every fellow man...

Love never fails

with Love and Light

Moonlight

moonlight60:
Doc G..... Can not wait to see the Film .

Thank you
moon

sea storm:
I have been watching this documentary and it is really great. There are a lot of pictures of Salinger and it follows his life scrupulously. His experiences in the war were shockingly dreadful, his romance with Oona O'Neill heartbreaking. There are so many things that really made me wonder about people's perception of Salinger.  The whole idea of him being a recluse was interesting.  They showed a man showing up at his door uninvited and wanting Salinger to answer probing questions. I thought that S. was polite, shocked and felt his privacy invaded.  The man who showed up thought Salinger uncaring and arrogant for not welcoming him with open arms.
As Salinger says.... he does not have the answers. His life reveals him to be a complex man who was pretty severely mauled by life and traumatized. It would have been impossible not to be that way under the circumstances.

I wondered why he left Oona to go off to war if he was so madly in love. Maybe that was just naive. It was sad to see how hurt he was by this and he was in no shape to be resilient as he was sunk in his trench in France.

I stopped watching it half way through. It is hard going but worth it. It is nothing short of amazing that he wrote
Catcher in the Rye while he was fighting in World War 2.  He was reaching for innocence in the midst of hell ascending.  I stopped watching when he got so entranced by the fourteen year old girl when he was 30. How nicely they danced over this. Or maybe not. Not for me anyway.  I guess I would like him to be heroic and he is only human.

I'll watch the rest of the documentary soon and thanks for recommending it.

Sea storm

Meh:
The author?

Hum, never knew he was N afflicted. I may have to watch it.

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