Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation [Paperback]

Traumatic Narcissism?presents therapeutic clinical opportunities for all mental health professionals. In this Classic Edition, Shaw offers insights from his extensive work with these victims and elaborates on the traumatizing narcissist's delusion of omnipotence, a crucial key to understanding his behavior and what drives it.

'Daniel Shaws exploration of the dynamics inherent in psychological abuse related to highly narcissistic parenting is thoroughly psychoanalytic, but it also is so trauma treatment savvy as to be breathtaking in its scope.'

Richard Chefetz, author of Intensive Psychotherapy For Persistent Dissociative Processes: The Fear of Feeling Real

'Daniel Shaw's Traumatic Narcissism is a must read as a cutting edge relational approach to helping patients free themselves from the destructive impact of the relationships they have with traumatic narcissists.'

Lawrence Josephs, Adelphi University, American Psychological Association

'This book belongs on my shelf between Leonard Shengolds Soul Murder (Shengold, 1989) and Bernard Brandchafts pathological accommodation work (Brandchaft, Doctors, & Sorter, 2010). To these irreplaceable resources, Shaw adds not only his extensive studies of the precise mechanisms of soul destruction in cults and cult-like groups (such as allegedly therapeutic cults and the large group awareness trainingsLGATs) , as well as his own description of cult-like families ruled by traumatizing narcissists.'

Donna Orange, International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology

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