Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame: Healing Right Brain Relational Trauma

by Patricia DeYoung, Vicki-Jo Eva (Narrator)

A masterful synthesis of relational and attachment theory, neurobiology, and contemporary psychoanalysis, Understanding and Treating Chronic Healing Right Brain Relational Trauma has been internationally recognized as an essential text on shame. Integrating new theory about trauma, shame resilience, and self-compassion, this second edition further clarifies the relational, right-brain essence of being in and with the suffering of shame. New chapters carry theory further into praxis.

In the time of a national Truth and Reconciliation Commission and a global Black Lives Matter movement, Societies of Chronic Shame invites therapists to deepen their awareness of collective societal trauma and of their own place within dissociated societal shame. Three Faces of Shame organizes the clinical wisdom of the book into clear guidelines for differential diagnosis and treatment. Lucid and compassionate, this book engages with the most profound challenges of clinical practice and touches into the depths of being human.

This audiobook is skillfully read by Vicki-Jo Eva, and was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. Audio engineering by Matthew Kulewicz, MPSE.

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Published September 23, 2024

Reviews

[Maria · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very interesting exploration of shame, an already underexplored emotion, in my opinion, with a particularly compelling section on cultural and historical shame in underrepresented groups and minorities.

I think it would have benefited from an extra chapter or so on the neurobiological aspects, which I’m sure DeYoung is aware of, but perhaps she has explored this elsewhere. Overall, it is a well-researched and well-written book.