ISSTD Virtual Book Club - DeYoung

May 07, 2018 09:00am -
Jun 03, 2018 12:00pm
(GMT-5)

Event Description

Welcome to the ISSTD Virtual Book Club Registration page.

I'm thrilled to announce that from May - June the Virtual Book Club will be studying Patricia DeYoung's superb book Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame.  Shame has been a major topic on our listserv and at our conferences for quite a few years, and remains a topic of lively interest and importance in our community.  DeYoung's book is nuanced both clinically and theoretically, and a pleasure to read.  The "chronically shamed" clients she discusses have a range of trauma from different degrees of relational (developmental) trauma all the way to severe abuse and DID.  
 
The book is divided into two parts.  In Part I DeYoung introduces clinical examples that she refers to throughout the book, and she offers her own definition of shame as "the experience of one's felt sense of self disintegrating in relation to a dysregulating other."   DeYoung explicates her definition with great nuance and clinical sensitivity   in terms of a various ways the dysregulating other may be experienced (various relational needs that may not be met) and also the variety of shame-states and related defenses that may be evoked.   She offers a brilliantly clear explanation self-psychology transferences and their functions, then connects them to clinical examples involving chronic shame.   She illustrates how affect regulation and coherent self-experience are two sides of the same coin, and the various consequences for both sides of the coin when right-brain to right-brain regulation fails.  Throughout Part I she draws on Allan Schore's "right-brain psychotherapy," infant development, attachment theory, self-psychology, and relational psychotherapy.
 
Part II is focused on treatment. Topics covered include:  the necessity for the therapist to know his or her own shame; de-shaming ways of engaging clients; needing to tolerate our clients' continual refusal/ inability to "let us know more about how they feel" (she calls this tolerance "large empathy"); mentalizing and forming narratives even when the patient cannot, and how that can be clinically effective even when not directly communicated to the patient; dissociated shame; and the nature of enactment and its resolution.
 
Patricia DeYoung, MSW, PhD, is a relational psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and founding faculty member of the Toronto Institute for Relational Psychotherapy.  Her first book, Relational Psychotherapy: A Primer,was published in 2003.

 

Rick Hohfeler, Joan Haliburn and Garrett Deckel
ISSTD Virtual Book Club Moderators


The virtual book club is conducted online through a discussion platform which will allow participants in all parts of the world to participate at times that are convenient for them. Discussion will be led by our moderators Rick Hohfeler, Joan Haliburn and Garrett Deckel along with the article's author Patricia DeYoung.


This is for ISSTD Members Only. If you are not yet a member and are interested in joining, please visit: ISSTD Membership page


Event Type:Book Club
Early registration ends on Apr 28, 2018.
Regular registration starts on Apr 29, 2018 and ends on May 06, 2018.
Late registration starts on May 07, 2018.
(GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

 

 

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