Description

Shame typically comes up when you look inward with a critical eye and evaluate yourself harshly, often for things you have little control over.

This negative self-evaluation often has its roots in messages you've received from others, especially during your childhood. When parents or teachers criticized you, rather than any poor behavior choices you may have made, they planted the seed of shame.

Shame centers on your very identity as a person, and it becomes particularly toxic when it starts to impact your sense of self.

This manual was designed to give clinicians more knowledge about the shame effect and its commonality within the clinical population. Shame is experienced by a wide range of psychiatric patients who seek help. These include the obsessive-compulsive individual who hides his/her bizarre rituals and thoughts. Other patients with chronic emotional, behavioral, and cognitive disorders experience shame because of their social and occupational limitations. In addition, many patients with addictions, or personality disorders, have deep shameful memories of abuse, neglect, or abandonment...

Want to overcome shame? This book is for you.