DANIEL SHAW, LCSW I am a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City and in Nyack, New York. Trained extensively in psychoanalysis, I have studied with many of the leaders of the Relational Psychoanalytic school, including Stephen Mitchell, Lewis Aron, James Fosshage and Philip Bromberg. Additionally, I have studied Sensorimotor Psychotherapy with Janina Fisher; and completed Fisher’s certification in Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatmment (TIST). I work with adult individuals to help them make sense of and overcome the obstacles that have blocked them from more fully realizing their potentials, in love and work. I have extensive experience helping individuals with the negating impact of narcissistic abuse – that is, being in relationship to highly narcissistic significant others; and I have 30 years of experience helping cult survivors to heal from traumatic abuse in cults.
Prior to entering the mental health profession, I trained as an actor at Northwestern University and with the renowned teacher Uta Hagen in New York City. I later worked for more than a decade as a missionary for an Indian guru. My eventual recognition of cultic aspects of this organization led me to become an outspoken activist in support of individuals and families traumatically abused in cults. Simultaneous with leaving this group in 1994, I began my training in the mental health profession, becoming a faculty member and supervisor at The National Institute for the Psychotherapies in New York. In addition to authoring numerous journal articles and book chapters, my book, Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation, was published in 2014 for the Relational Perspectives Series by Routledge. This book introduced the traumatic narcissism theory to the mental health community, and was a runner-up for the distinguished Gradiva Award. In 2018, I was honored by the International Cultic Studies Association with the Margaret Thaler Singer Award for advancing the understanding of coercive persuasion and undue influence. My second book, Traumatic Narcissism and Recovery: Leaving the Prison of Shame and Fear, was published by Routledge in 2021.
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