Summary
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The Third Edition of Counselling and Psychotherapy for Depression is a popular and practical guide to working with people suffering from depression. As well as describing the skills and techniques used by practitioners, the book explores the features and complexities of depressed states including:
General negativity; Sense of failure and abandonment; Feelings of powerlessness, anger, shame, and guilt
The book examines the essential stages of the therapeutic process from conceptualization and formulation through to a wide variety of interventions for different types of difficulty. The Third Edition has been revised and updated and features a new chapter focusing on the role of the therapeutic relationship.
Working with Specific Difficulties II: Shame, Guilt, Ideal and Envy
Working with Specific Difficulties II: Shame, Guilt, Ideal and Envy
In this chapter we will take a few more examples of difficulties and explore them in detail, bringing together the themes we have discussed in this book so far. We start with a key issue in depression – that of shame.
Working with Shame
In Chapter 6 we saw that shame can be central to many aspects of depression. A typical shame problem can be in revealing the intensity of internal feelings or allowing oneself to be in touch with feelings (thus emotional avoidance and poor affect tolerance). Mary found it extremely difficult to cry in counselling. When she did so, she would cover her face with both ...
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