Books - Part 2

[Kizzie]

This thread is for books members have found and want to share with the community.

[SenseOrgan]

When I do a search, I don't find one book here that has been incredibly helpful to me. If it's not mentioned here anywhere before, I'm genuinely shocked.

The book is called Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame: A Relational/Neurobiological Approach, by Patricia A. DeYoung. I haven't come across anyone with such a deep understanding of shame. It's written mainly for therapists, but there's a lot of gold in here for people struggling with chronic or toxic shame. It was incredibly validating to read. I highly recommend it. Especially to people who feel something is missing in John Bradshaw's book about the topic.

Here's what's on goodreads:
Chronic shame is painful, corrosive, and elusive. It resists self-help and undermines even intensive psychoanalysis. Patricia A. DeYoung's cutting-edge book gives chronic shame the serious attention it deserves, integrating new brain science with an inclusive tradition of relational psychotherapy. She looks behind the myriad symptoms of shame to its relational essence. As DeYoung describes how chronic shame is wired into the brain and developed in personality, she clarifies complex concepts and makes them available for everyday therapy practice. Grounded in clinical experience and alive with case examples, Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame is highly readable and immediately helpful. Patricia A. DeYoung's clear, engaging writing helps readers recognize the presence of shame in the therapy room, think through its origins and effects in their clients' lives, and decide how best to work with those clients. Therapists will find that Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame enhances the scope of their practice and efficacy with this client group, which comprises a large part of most therapy practices. Challenging, enlightening, and nourishing, this book belongs in the library of every shame-aware therapist.

[Kizzie]

Tks for this SO      Shame is definitely something we all know about here and could use some help with. Interestingly, I see that she is  a relational psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and a founding faculty member of the Toronto Institute for Relational Psychotherapy so it's likely a good fit for OOTS members.

[SenseOrgan]

My pleasure Kizzie. And thank you so much for creating this sanctuary!

[SenseOrgan]

Diana Fosha - Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0

This book updates clinical guidance and theory for Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), an approach that gives patients corrective emotional and relational experiences that mobilize changes in the brain.

Practitioners of AEDP understand psychopathology as a byproduct of internal working models, borne out of insecure attachment experiences, that now thwart adaptive functioning in adulthood. The goal of AEDP is to be therapeutically present with patients and their pain and to guide them to have a new experience—a good experience—thus rewiring memory and capacity to reflect. Updates to the AEDP approach (moving it into its second iteration, or "2.0") leverage emerging findings from the field of affective neuroscience to enhance individuals' healing and transformation.

The authors demonstrate the power of relational work by sharing excerpts and analysis of clinical session transcripts. In each chapter, they engage different aspects of the AEDP model to show how emotional suffering can be transformed into adaptive connection, even for individuals with histories of neglect, abuse, and complex trauma.

Source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55840467-undoing-aloneness-and-the-transformation-of-suffering-into-flourishing?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=YP391AFu51&rank=1

[Armee]

Has anyone seen/read this new one yet from Pete Walker on treating CPTSD?

Holistically Treating Complex PTSD: A Six-Dimensional Approach: Guidance for Therapists, Coaches, and Other Helpers to Repair the Damage and Arrested Development ... Suffered by Childhood Trauma Survivors https://a.co/d/3mgOtoy

[Kizzie]

Oh wow, I had not seen that, Pete has been busy. So that's a "Merry Christmas" gift for me for sure.

[SenseOrgan]

Armee
Amazing! Thanks for posting that one. Gonna see if I can sneak it under the Christmas tree :-)