Letting Go of Shame: Understanding How Shame Affects Your Life -- Ronald Potter-Efron, Paperback

In this time of coronavirus concern, you may be feeling stuck and useless. This book helps us recognize shame for what it is, and affirm our basic humanity, humility, autonomy, and competence.

As we identify shame and use recovery skills to work through it, Letting Go of Shame: Understanding How Shame Affects Your Life helps to explain the emotion of shame and its impact on our self-image and relationships. The authors offer us a way that we can personalize a plan of action to help build our self-esteem, and they suggest exercises to help us identify our feelings of shame.

Author: Ronald Potter-Efron, Patricia Potter-Efron
Publisher: Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services
Published: 10/01/1989
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.39h x 5.41w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780894866357

About the Author
Dr. Ronald T. Potter-Efron is a clinical psychotherapist. He has a M.S.W from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in sociology from Purdue University. A former university professor, he specializes in the treatment of addictive disorders and anger and resentment counseling. He also is active in training professional counselors. He taught at an experimental college for eight years, and has trained in gestalt therapy techniques. Ronald is the author of Shame, Guilt and Alcoholism: Treatment Issues in Clinical Practice.