Multi-disc DVD recording (58 minutes) with electronic manual and instructions. Description: Shame has an insidious impact on our traumatized clients’ ability to find relief and perspective even with good treatment. Feelings of worthlessness and inadequacy interfere with taking in positive experiences, leaving only hopelessness. This 60-minute recording was webcast live from the office of Dr. Janina Fisher and introduces shame from a neurobiological perspective—as a survival strategy driving somatic responses of automatic obedience and total submission. Learn to help clients relate to their symptoms with curiosity rather than automatic acceptance, discriminate the cognitive, emotional, and physiological components of shame, and to integrate somatic as well as traditional psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral techniques to transform shame-related stuckness. Objectives: Help clients appreciate the role of shame and self-loathing as symptoms of trauma Identify the neurobiological effects of shame Discriminate the physiological and cognitive contributors to shame Describe cognitive-behavioral, ego state, and psychoeducational interventions to address shame Outline: The Neurobiology of Shame The role of shame in traumatic experience Shame as an animal defense survival response Effects of shame on autonomic arousal Shame’s Evolutionary Purpose Shame and the attachment system Rupture and repair in attachment formation Making Meaning of Shame Feelings of disgust, degradation, and humiliation are interpreted as “who I am” Cognition and the body Internal working models predict the future and determine our actions Working from the “Bottom Up” The role of procedural learning and memory Physiological effects of mindful dual awareness Using mindfulness-based techniques to inhibit self-judgment A New Relationship to the Shame: Acceptance and Compassion Re-contextualizing shame as a younger self or part Bringing our adult capacity to our childhood vulnerability Healing shame through compassionate acceptance The Social Engagement System and the Healing of Shame Social engagement and the ventral vagal system (Porges) The incompatibility of shame and social engagement The therapist’s own social engagement system as a healing agent About the Speaker: Janina Fisher, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist and instructor at the Trauma Center, founded by Bessel van der Kolk, MD. A faculty member of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, an EMDR International Association consultant, past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, and former instructor, Harvard Medical School, Dr. Fisher lectures nationally and internationally on the integration of the neurobiological research and new trauma treatment paradigms into traditional psychotherapies.
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