Shame
Shame
Subtitle Free Yourself, Find Joy and Build True Self Esteem
By Dr. Joseph Burgo
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Shame

ISBN 9781786782588
Non Fiction Genre Self-Help/How-To Mind/Body
Publication Date 12/06/2018
Price 14.99
Paperback Hyperlink https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shame-Dr-Joseph-Burgo/dp/1786782588/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1538062927&sr=8-1&keywords=shame+joseph+burgo

Synopsis

This book explores the emotions of shame (embarrassment, guilt, self-consciousness), which are unavoidable aspects of life. Richly illustrated with clinical stories from Burgo’s 35 years of practice, this is an intimate look at the full spectrum of shame―often masked by addiction, promiscuity, perfectionism, and narcissism―offering a new, positive route forward.

Author's Bio

JOSEPH BURGO, PH.D. has been practicing psychotherapy for over 35 years. He has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Washington Post, and other major publications. He writes a blog on shame for Psychology Today and covers personal development issues from a psychodynamic perspective on his website, After Psychotherapy.

Reviews

“Savour this book’s lessons and exercises. You’ll come away with the kind of self-compassion that makes us all better people.” – Dr. Craig Malkin, Lecturer, Harvard Medical School and author of Rethinking Narcissism

“An essential read for anyone who suffers from shame and self criticism. This book can help transform the way you see yourself and the world.”-Shannon Kaiser best selling author of The Self-Love Experiment

“The best kind of self-help book […] it is sensible and measured, and is clearly based on years of thought and clinical experience. Above all, it is helpful.”- Joe Moran, author of Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of Shyness

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  1. My daily lead-ball-and-chain existence consists of a formidable perfect-storm-like combination of adverse childhood experience trauma, autism spectrum disorder and high sensitivity, the ACE trauma in large part being due to my ASD and high sensitivity.

    Ergo, it would be very helpful to people like me to have books written about such or similar conditions involving a coexistence of ACE trauma and/or ASD and/or high sensitivity, the latter which seems to have a couple characteristics similar to ASD traits.

    While SHAME: Free Yourself, Find Joy, and Build True Self-Esteem is informative and useful to me in other ways, it nevertheless fails to mention any of the three abovementioned cerebral conditions, let alone the potential obstacles they may or likely will pose to readers like me benefiting from the book’s information/instruction.

    The Autistic Brain, for example, fails to even once mention the real potential for additional challenges created by a reader’s ASD coexisting with thus exacerbated by high sensitivity and/or ACE trauma. As it were, I also read a book on adverse childhood experience trauma [Childhood Disrupted] that totally fails to even once mention high sensitivity and/or autism spectrum disorder. That was followed by The Highly Sensitive Man, with no mention whatsoever of autism spectrum disorder or adverse childhood experience trauma.

    I therefore don’t know whether my additional, coexisting conditions will render the information and/or assigned exercises from such not-cheap books useless, or close to it, in my efforts to live much less miserably.

    While many/most people in my shoes would work with the books nonetheless, I cannot; I simply need to know if I’m wasting my time and, most importantly, mental efforts.

    ACE abuse thus trauma is often inflicted upon ASD and/or highly sensitive children and teens by their normal or ‘neurotypical’ peers — thus resulting in immense and even debilitating self-hatred and shame — so why not at least acknowledge it in some meaningful, constructive way?

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