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.

This book presents a way of understanding the traumatic impact of narcissism as it is engendered developmentally, and as it is enacted relationally.

Preface. Acknowledgements.The Relationality of Narcissism.The Adult Child of the Traumatizing Narcissist: Enter Ghosts! Traumatizing Narcissism in Cults.Narcissistic Authoritarianism in Psychoanalysis. Traumatizing Narcissism in Couples: Invisible Violence and Clinical Morality. "But What Do I Do?" Finding the Path to Freedom. On the Therapeutic Action of Analytic Love. Analytic Love Revisited.