From Shame to Human Agency and Responsibility: A Review of Traumatic Narcissism and Recovery: Leaving the Prison of Shame and Fear By Daniel Shaw

Abstract

I am pleased to have this opportunity to review Daniel Shaw’s book Traumatic Narcissism and Recovery: Leaving the Prison of Shame and Fear . In this book, Shaw follows up on the themes that he explored in his first volume, Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation . Here, Shaw extends his thinking on the sources of traumatic narcissism, and focuses more specifically on relational processes in clinical work with individuals who grew up with traumatically narcissistic parents.