Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma: Concepts and Psychotherapy

Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma: Concepts and Psychotherapy
ISBN-10
0429759517
ISBN-13
9780429759512
Category
Psychology
Pages
274
Language
English
Published
2022-03-18
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Ken Benau

Description

Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma is a guide to recognizing the many ways shame and pride lie at the heart of psychotherapy with survivors of relational trauma. In these pages, readers learn how to differentiate shame and pride as emotional processes and traumatic mind/body states. They will also discover how understanding the psychodynamic and phenomenological relationships between shame, pride, and dissociation benefit psychotherapy with relational trauma. Therapists will learn about ways to conceptualize and successfully navigate complex, patient-therapist shame dynamics, and apply neuroscientific findings to this challenging work. Finally, readers will discover how the concept and phenomena of pro-being pride, that is delighting in one's own and others' unique aliveness, helps patients transcend maladaptive shame and pride and experience greater unity within, with others, and with the world beyond.

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