Ami B. Kaplan, LCSW Psychotherapy

07/24/2025

I'm quoted in the piece about 'flying-monkeys' and Narcissism. (triangulation)

Every good narc has their wingman. Here's how you can identify them.

07/09/2025

A new section of 'Adult Children of Narcissists' online support group will be starting early September 2025. http://www.amikaplan.net/groups/ Surviving Narcissism. It's every other week on zoom. Contact me for info!
amikaplan2@gmail.com

Adult Children of Narcissistic or Difficult Parents (or Partners) Adults who grew up with a highly narcissistic parent have unique challenges and concerns. It can be very helpful to acknowledge and share the difficulties of having a Narcissistic parent. Individuals … Continue reading →

09/03/2023

A new section of 'Adult Children of Narcissists' group starting Sept 20th. http://www.amikaplan.net/groups/ Surviving Narcissism. Contact me for info!

07/08/2022

Another quote (towards the bottom of the article) https://www.newsweek.com/my-bipolar-daughter-conned-thousands-advice-1720702

'We are retired and living on a very limited income'

07/17/2021

I gave some quotes for this Cosmo piece back in March - but they just contacted me to say its going to be in the print version soon.

I've been concentrating a lot lately on my second specialty in Adult Children of Narcissistic Parents (and partners).

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a26988344/love-bombing-signs-definition/

This tactic used by narcissists is a dangerous form of emotional abuse.

03/19/2021

There are a few openings in this Adult Children of Narcissists group. http://www.amikaplan.net/groups/ Surviving Narcissism.

* * * Starting early 2021 * * * *Adult Children of Narcissistic or Difficult Parents (Online) Adults who grew up with a highly narcissistic parent have unique challenges and concerns. It can be very helpful to acknowledge … Continue reading →

03/19/2021

06/10/2018

I’m quoted in this piece. (I’m talking more about people in general and not about Kim K).

http://www.bravotv.com/personal-space/yes-kim-kardashian-gets-really-pissed-when-kanye-west-says-crazy-things

Let’s see, there’s the Donald Trump comments, the slavery comments, his Twitter rants (those are just the recent ones.) There’s all sorts of babble about him inventing

03/24/2018

At the William Alanson White conference today. Excellent panel of mostly women speakers (unusual for a conference)-including Carol Gilligan

12/09/2017

I'm happy to have contributed some thoughts to this Bravo article

http://www.bravotv.com/personal-space/what-does-it-mean-to-raise-your-kid-in-a-gender-neutral-way

Pink revealed she’s raising her kids as "gender neutral", telling The Sunday People that she does not want to impose traditional gender roles on her two children, six-year-old daughter Willow, and 11-month-old son Jameson. “We are a very label-less household,” she said, adding that she was all...

09/08/2017

There are a few openings in this Transgender Support Group. http://www.amikaplan.net/groups/

08/21/2017

Susan Stryker - commenting on my chapter in the book “Clinical Encounters in Sexuality”

“Kaplan’s clinical approach to working with trans* clients is a hopeful token of a psychoanalytic future capable of accounting for transness non-psychopathalogically” (p.423)

https://punctumbooks.com/titles/clinical-encounters-in-sexuality-psychoanalytic-practice-and-q***r-theory/

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2017. 494 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0-9985318-5-4. OPEN-ACCESS e-book + $27.00 [€25.00/£23.00] in print: paperbound/5 X 8 in.In this terrific book, the psychoanalysts and the q***r theorists—who are sometimes the same person, but usually not—are less in “conversation” abou...