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 →

07/08/2022

Another quote (towards the bottom of the article)

'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).

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 →

06/10/2018

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

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

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...

07/26/2017

This is so sad and disheartening. Transgender individuals serve in the military with as much integrity and competence as other military personnel. This is a demonstration of Trump's ignorance, bigoted nature and incompetence.

President Trump said the military cannot be burdened with what he called “the tremendous medical costs” of allowing transgender service members.