Dr. DeYoung will explain three faces of shame — dysregulated, deficit, and dissociated — and discuss how to work relationally with each. All clients who suffer chronic shame have a history of feeling self-disintegrating in the presence of dysregulating others. For some, ongoing dysregulation is a primary problem. Their treatment requires solid, fearless, compassionate, containing presence and the ability to help them mentalize fragmented states. For other clients, the experience of self-deficit is the primary problem. Their treatment requires making oneself available for interpersonal connectedness, self-object transferences, and working through eruptions of in-session shame that accompanies empathic breaks. For a third group, the primary problem is their total dissociation of shame that leads to deep disconnections within their self-experience, an incapacity for vulnerability and genuine empathy, and inauthentic, projective relationships with others. Treatment requires patient’s “large empathy” for their dilemma, nurturing whatever bits of vulnerability appear, and trusting non-linear change processes. In all cases, what matters is the specific intentional quality of therapeutic being-with.
This workshop is open to all qualifications and will focus mainly on the psychotherapy field, although other fields may find the discussion of interest. £40 members/£80.00 non-members.
A recording of the event will be made which you can purchase by signing onto the event, but please note, we are only able to issue CPD certificates for those who attend the actual workshop.
Ticket sales will end Thursday 27th June at 12 noon
The Zoom Link will be sent out to all participants the day before the event.
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