Three books on the
shape of the self.
Two on narcissism and empathy — published. One on aesthetics and instinct — forthcoming.
2025
Center of the Universe
Transforming the 27 Types of Narcissism from the Inside Out
Independent · 2025 · 384 pages · Portuguese & Spanish editions forthcoming
A practical guide for recognizing all twenty-seven narcissistic subtypes at the individual, relational, collective, and systemic levels of human life. Where the first book named the patterns, this one shows how they scale — from the person across the dinner table to the institutions that quietly organize entire societies around ego.
Drawing on integral analysis, pop-culture examples, interview excerpts, and the latest research on collective narcissism, Center of the Universe equips readers with concrete strategies for navigating and transforming toxic egotism at every level — starting, as always, from the inside out.
Mosley does fine work of digging even deeper than before. He writes with much empathy and delicacy — not just "narcissist bad" mentality, but encouraging one to look within as well as without. A must read. — Reader review
2023
The Narcissist in You
and Everyone Else
A clinical and humane account of narcissism as it actually appears in ordinary life.
Rowman & Littlefield · 2023 · 312 pages · Traditional Chinese, Korean & Russian editions
Narcissism is not a fixed condition belonging to a recognizable villain — it's a spectrum-based model of increasing empathy loss, shaped by genetics, trauma, abuse, conditioning, and environment. Mosley identifies twenty-seven subtypes, each a distinct variation from the narrow portrait of the narcissist that circulates in popular culture and much of the clinical literature.
Using the Enneagram model of personality, the book invites readers to explore how their own narcissistic tendencies show up — and how to challenge them toward greater compassion. Equal parts self-examination and relationship guide, it's as useful for clinicians as for anyone who has ever wondered whether some of this belongs to them.
Penetrating and accomplished. Clinicians will find powerful insights they can use with their clients. Curious readers and students of the Enneagram will discover a unique application of the system — one that offers useful recommendations for how to deal with narcissism in your personal and professional life. — Tom Condon, Enneagram Teacher and author, The Dynamic Enneagram
Provides a detailed, academic approach on how to deal with the narcissistic distortions of the 27 Enneagram instinctual drives. Very useful in assisting my clients on their psycho-spiritual journey through life. — Deborah Ooten, PhD, Founder and CEO of Conscious Dynamics, LLC
Instinct
Discovering your
visual identity
Forthcoming
Your Aesthetic Instinct
Discovering your visual identity through the timeless archetypes of the twelve seasons.
Represented by Laura Wood at Fine Print Literary Management
The third book — and the one that bridges the work at the university and the work at the studio. Your Aesthetic Instinct introduces the IRB-validated framework behind The Instinct Aesthetic™: three instinctual drives (sensual, communal, magnetic) mapped across four seasonal palettes to yield twelve distinct visual identity archetypes, the Currents.
Written for anyone curious about their own visual identity — readers and collectors, designers and artists, founders and stylists, anyone who has ever wondered why a particular room, image, or wardrobe feels — unmistakably — like home. Half psychology, half design theory; useful at the dinner table and in the studio alike.