Main description:

Includes inter-relational, intra-relational, emotion focused and somatic approaches to this work.

Includes session transcripts that discuss both what's happening within the patient psychologically and neurobiologically, and between patient and therapist

Provides guiding principles, concepts, and attitudes when working with shame and pride in relational trauma, regardless of theoretical orientation of reader.

Contents:

1. Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma: What Are They and Why Do They Matter in Psychotherapy? 2. Shame and Pride: Subtypes and Processes 3. Shame, Pride, Mind/Body Leave Taking, and Structural Dissociation: Psychodynamics, Phenomenology, and Psychotherapy 4. Setting the Stage: Transtheoretical Attitudes, Principles, and Concepts When Working with Shame and Pride in Psychotherapy with Relational Trauma 5.Psychotherapy with Patient, Therapist, and Dyadic Shame States: Traumatic Reactions, Therapeutic Responses, and Transformation 6. From Shame to Pride: Psychotherapy, Neuroscience, and Applications-Three Perspectives 7.Shame State to a Core Way of Being: Beyond Pro-being Pride to Radiant Joy, Grief, Integration, and Oneness