Twenty-seven kinds, then twelve.
Two published books about narcissism, and a third in development about aesthetic identity.
- The Aesthetic Instinct
- In development
- Center of the Universe
- Bloomsbury Academic · 2025
- The Narcissist in You and Everyone Else
- Rowman & Littlefield · 2023
The Aesthetic Instinct
Discovering Your Visual Personality
The first book to map the relationship between instinctual drive and what a person finds beautiful. Three drives crossed with four seasons give twelve visual profiles, tested across three waves of research at the University of Oklahoma.
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Center of the Universe
Transforming the 27 Types of Narcissism from the Inside Out
The companion to the first book, and the one that asks what to do about it. Twenty-seven subtypes read at four scales, from the individual through the relational and the collective to the systemic, with the argument that the same pattern behaves differently depending on how much room it is given.
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The Narcissist in You and Everyone Else
Recognizing the 27 Types of Narcissism
Narcissism treated as a spectrum of diminishing empathy rather than a fixed condition, sorted into twenty-seven subtypes through the Enneagram. Written so that a clinician and a general reader can both use it, and structured so that the reader is included in the diagnosis instead of standing outside it.
All three books are typologies, and the method underneath them does not change.
The first two sort people into twenty-seven kinds of narcissism, using the Enneagram as the underlying structure, and argue that where a person lands tells you how their empathy fails. The third sorts people into twelve aesthetic profiles, using instinctual drive as the underlying structure, and argues that where a person lands tells you what they will find beautiful.
In each case the work is to take a pattern people already half recognize in themselves, give it enough structure to be usable, and stop short of the point where the structure starts flattering whoever is holding it. Twelve years of teaching personality theory is what the first two books came out of. Three waves of research is what the third one came out of.