Book Announcement by Orit Badouk Epstein (UK)
Conceiving of shame as a relational problem, this new Bowlby Centre Monograph Series title from Routledge explores how people can gradually move away from the relentless cycle of shame and find new and more satisfying ways of relating.
In this edited volume, Orit Badouk Epstein brings together a diverse group of experts from around the world who deepen our understanding of the etiology and impact of shame on both children and adults. Aileen Alleyne, Elaine Arnold, Richard Chefetz, Adriano Schimmenti, Ulrich Schultz, Judith Solomon, Colwyn Trevarthen and Badouk Epstein herself examine shame from attachment, developmental, relational, philosophical, trauma and cultural perspectives.
Drawing on the experience of infant researchers, trauma experts and therapists using somatic interventions, Shame Matters explores and develops understanding of the shameful deflations encountered in the consulting room and describes how new and empowered ways of relating can be nurtured. Dissociation, attachment perspective on the body, internalized oppression, racism and socio-economic factors on the development and experience of shame are discussed and illustrated with clinical narratives. The book also details attachment-informed research into the experience of shame and outlines how it can be applied to clinical practice.
Orit Badouk Epstein is a UKCP registered attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist, supervisor, training therapist, teacher, writer and editor. She trained at The Bowlby Centre, London where she was Editor of Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis (Phoenix Publishing House). She has specialised in working with individuals who have experienced extreme abuse and trauma and have displayed symptoms of dissociation. Orit has written book chapters and is co-author of Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs (Karnac, 2011), Terror Within and Without (Karnac, 2013) and Shame Matters (Routledge, 2021).
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