Book Announcement by Daniel Shaw (USA)

In Traumatic Narcissism, Daniel Shaw presents a way of understanding the traumatic impact of narcissism as it is engendered developmentally and enacted relationally. Originally published in 2014 for Routledge’s Relational Perspectives series, Shaw’s book was nominated for the distinguished Gradiva Award. It is now available as an audiobook.

Bringing together theories of trauma and attachment, intersubjectivity and complementarity, and the rich clinical sensibility of the Relational psychoanalysis tradition, Shaw demonstrates how narcissism can best be understood not merely as character, but as the result of the specific trauma of subjugation, in which one person is required to become the object for a significant other who demands hegemonic subjectivity. Traumatic Narcissism presents therapeutic clinical opportunities not only for psychoanalysts of different schools, but also for all mental health professionals working with a wide variety of modalities. Although primarily intended for the professional psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, this is also a book that therapy patients and general audiences find highly accessible and illuminating.

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Daniel Shaw, LCSW is in private practice in Nyack and New York, NY. Faculty, NIP, New York. Trained as an actor at Northwestern University and with the renowned teacher Uta Hagen, Shaw later worked as a missionary for an Indian guru, which eventually led him to become an outspoken activist for individuals and families traumatically abused in cults. He has also authored the recently published Traumatic Narcissism and Recovery: Leaving the Prison of Shame and Fear. He received the Margaret Thaler Singer Award for advancing the understanding of coercive persuasion and undue influence.

Daniel Shaw, LCSW
Nyack and New York, NY
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