Description: This book contains powerful new insights for the therapist on a full-range of topics from intimacy in couples to fathering to politics to child development to gender issues to negative therapeutic reactions. Filled with anecdotes and case examples as well as practical strategies, The Voice of Shame will transform your ideas about the role of shame in relationships - and about the potential of the Gestalt model to clarify and contextualize other approaches. The Voice of Shame offers practical recommendations for working with shame, including: techniques for supporting couples in processing their individual and joint experiences of shame to break down destructive cycles and restore intimate process; perspectives on the effect of shame on women's identity formation, with particular reference to body image issues and eating disorders; methods for managing and healing painful shame issues in men's lives and father-son relations, and implications for a new understanding of development and gender; new analyses of the complex links between therapeutic issues and social/political process; tools for understanding and undoing the destructive shame and guilt that binds the "codependent" child; insight into the shame issues and struggles of living with chronic illness; methods for working with the potentially overwhelming shame experienced by gay, lesbian, and bisexual clients, and implications for all patients; and a creative, theoretical framework and practical guide for dealing with shame induced within the therapeutic relationship itself. The authors show how new perspectives on shame gained in one particular area transfer and generalize to other areas and settings. In so doing, they transformour fundamental understanding of psychotherapy itself. Grounded in the most recent research on the dynamics and experience of shame, this book is a practical guide for all psychotherapists, psychologists, clinicians, and others interested in self, psychotherapy, and relationship.

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