Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma
Psychotherapy with Chronic Mind/Body States
Presented By Ken Benau
May 19 | May 26 | June 2 | June 9 | June 16, 2023
12 PM -1 PM Eastern Time
$195 | 5 CE credits
Enroll NowChronic shame lies at the heart of most psychological suffering, particularly in survivors of relational trauma (RT), that includes abuse, neglect, and pervasive attachment wounds. While most trauma therapists intuitively know this to be true, they often haven't learned how best to understand traumatic shame nor how to transform these painfully intransigent mind/body states. Pride is hardly discussed at all in the literature, particularly with regard to its beneficial role in psychotherapy with RT survivors. Using verbatim, psychotherapy session transcripts, this course shows therapists how to help RT survivors "go beyond" alleviating shame states and enhancing adaptive pride to more fully embody their aliveness, what I term "pro-being pride", in which their unique ways of being and relating are celebrated within, with others, and in the world.
Watch Our Interview w/ Dr. BenauNew access to another research article by Dr. Benau! For this one, click on the title below to access it. Enjoy!
Pride in the psychotherapy of relational trauma: Conceptualization and treatment considerations.
Benau, K. (2018). Pride in the psychotherapy of relational trauma: Conceptualization and treatment considerations. European
Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 2(3), 131-146.
Learning Objectives
What to expect:
- Five 1-hour sessions, exploring how to better understand and work integratively with shame and pride in Relational Trauma (RT) survivors
- Course is designed for psychotherapists and graduate students at all levels (some experience with RT survivors is beneficial)
- Neurofeedback experience is not required
- Powerpoint slides and handouts will be made available to participants
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Session 1: What are shame, pride, and relational trauma (RT), and why do they matter in psychotherapy?
Session 2: Shame, pride, and dissociation: Psychodynamics and transformation
Session 3: Patient-therapist shame state dynamics: From reactivity to therapeutic responsivity
Session 4: Neuroscience of shame states: Understanding and therapeutic applications
Session 5: Psychotherapeutic transformation from shame states, to adaptive pride, and pro-being pride
Intro to the Course & Faculty
Introduction to the Course from Dr. Benau
EEG Learn Interview hosted by Lars Vala
Research Articles by Dr. Benau
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Benau, K. (2018). Pride in the psychotherapy of relational
trauma: Conceptualization and treatment
considerations. European Journal
of Trauma and Dissociation, 2(3), 131-146. -
Shame, Attachment, and Psychotherapy:
Phenomenology, Neurophysiology, Relational
Trauma, and Harbingers of Healing. (Attachment.
Vol. 11, May 2017) -
From Shame State to Pro-being Pride in a Single "Session" (2020)
Dr. Benau's Bio
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$195
Five 1-hour sessions | 12pm - 1pm ET
May 19 | May 26 | June 2 | June 9 | June 16, 2023
Psychotherapeutically transform chronic shame states into adaptive pride and beyond; help relational trauma survivors access embodied states of aliveness where their unique ways of being and relating, their "pro-being pride", are celebrated within themselves, others, and in the world.
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