I admire Patricia Polledri for taking on such an entrenched point of view regarding envy so effectively. I look forward to her next book and her continued engagement with practice-based evidence and how to make sense of such a complicated subject.

(Joseph Schwartz, The Bowlby Centre, London.)

This is a rich and sophisticated book by an experienced practitioner in the field of forensic psychiatry and psychotherapy. Patricia Polledri has skillfully reviewed a number of very complex academic discourses (psychoanalytical, ethological and neurobiological) to produce an account of envy that is both empirically based and clinically meaningful.

(Dr Gwen Adshead, consultant forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Broadmoor Hospital, West London Mental Health Trust)

In this imposing and groundbreaking book, Polledri encourages us to look beyond easily acceptable traditional concepts such as envy and she examines the psychopathology associated with it. The reader will be challenged with both old and new ways of thinking about the nature of the mother/baby relationship that will undoubtedly prove helpful in our understanding of how envy takes root.

(Dr Estella Welldon, MD ,DSc, FRCPhysch. And author of Playing With Dynamite and Mother, Madonna, Whore.

This book successfully gives a fuller view of the way a disturbed mind works as a result of severe trauma and human misery suffered at the hands of significant others during the early childhood years. It can only increase our awareness of it and the implications that there are for treatment with such individuals. Patricia Polledri’s book deserves a place in all psychiatric and psychological facilities and will be of great interest to the intelligent lay reader,

(Dr Patrick Gallwey, FRCPhysch.)

I have just read your new book from cover to cover in one go! It really is spot on for the likes of the untrained in psych stuff like me. A terrific book, interesting, easy to read, instructive and I really was impressed with the chapter explaining Oscar Pistorius’s behavior. Thank you for writing it.

(Gail F. (teacher)

A former researcher at University College London Medical School, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, and at the University of Sussex, Department of Law and Political Sciences, Patricia Polledri is supremely qualified to write about envy. Her first book, Envy Is Not Innate: A New Model Of Thinking, a forensic psychiatry textbook, was published in 2012 to wide acclaim. Envy In Everyday Life has been written with a general reader in mind, providing vital information about a subject that might affect anyone of us.