Traumatic Narcissism

Auteur

Daniel Shaw, LCSW is a psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapist in private practice in New York City, and in Nyack, New York. He is a training analyst, teacher and supervisor of analytic candidates at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies in New York City.

Texte du rabat

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.

Résumé
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.

Contenu

Introduction to the Classic Edition 1. A Prison of shame and fear 2. Make someone happy 3. Double binds, unhealing wounds 4. Working with dissociated aggression in traumatized patients 5. Authoritarianism and the cultic dynamic 6. Psychoanalysis, meet religion 7. The problem of self-alienation