9780415510257-0415510252-Traumatic Narcissism (Relational Perspectives Book Series)

Traumatic Narcissism (Relational Perspectives Book Series)

ISBN-13: 9780415510257
ISBN-10: 0415510252
Edition: 1
Author: Daniel Shaw
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Paperback 192 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780415510257
ISBN-10: 0415510252
Edition: 1
Author: Daniel Shaw
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Paperback 192 pages

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Traumatic Narcissism (Relational Perspectives Book Series) (ISBN-13: 9780415510257 and ISBN-10: 0415510252), written by authors Daniel Shaw, was published by Routledge in 2013. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Personality Disorders (Mental Health, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Psychotherapy, TA & NLP, Psychology & Counseling, Pathologies, Psychology) books. You can easily purchase or rent Traumatic Narcissism (Relational Perspectives Book Series) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Personality Disorders books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $21.84.

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In this volume, Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation, Daniel Shaw presents a way of understanding the traumatic impact of narcissism as it is engendered developmentally, and as it is enacted relationally. Focusing on the dynamics of narcissism in interpersonal relations, Shaw describes the relational system of what he terms the 'traumatizing narcissist' as a system of subjugation – the objectification of one person in a relationship as the means of enforcing the dominance of the subjectivity of the other.

Daniel Shaw illustrates the workings of this relational system of subjugation in a variety of contexts: theorizing traumatic narcissism as an intergenerationally transmitted relational/developmental trauma; and exploring the clinician's experience working with the adult children of traumatizing narcissists. He explores the relationship of cult leaders and their followers, and examines how traumatic narcissism has lingered vestigially in some aspects of the psychoanalytic profession.

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 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 lay readers will find highly readable and illuminating.

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