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One of the most insidious issues, unaware shame is a frequent hindrance to the progress of therapeutic process and to the growth of its actors: patient and therapist as well.
The concern of shame is primarily recognition of one’s own right to exist in an other’s eyes and to belong to human community. It’s therefore a decisive factor in the qualities of human bond.
If the psychotherapist himself is not clear on this issue about him/herself, the therapeutic situation as such will be generating or activating shame. Then, the therapeutic process could favor withdrawal into oneself, denial, an “as if” experiencing and many other modalities which would try to avoid this issue. So shame may cause many different defences in contact with others.
On a clinical and practical level, shame is of major importance insofar as it strongly and clearly shows the necessary shift from an intrapsychic perspective to a field perspective.
After his first essay about shame published in 1990, probably the first in the Gestalt-therapy community, Jean-Marie Robine had many opportunities to lead workshops internationally and to write other articles about this topic.
Date: Friday & Saturday January 17 & 18, 2025 Times: 9:00AM - 3:00PM
Fee: GIT Student/Alumni Fee: $450.00 | Regular Fee: $495.00