ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I illustrate the workings of the traumatizing narcissist's relational system through an extended clinical vignette of my work with Alice, the adult child of traumatizing narcissist parents. Alice is an example of the person in this system that I think of as the victim, not the perpetrator, of traumatic narcissism. It is usually the people who are or who have been in significant relationships with the traumatizing narcissist, people like Alice, who become our patients. Their narcissistic vulnerabilities stem from cumulative relational trauma, and the analytic work with these patients crucially includes the illumination and the witnessing of that trauma.
