Ken Benau, PhD: Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma: Some Applications to Couple and Family Therapy
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This training will discuss core concepts and practices of a shame and pride-informed psychotherapy with survivors of relational trauma (RT), with some applications to couple and family therapy.
The initial 45 minutes of this training will include:
? What are shame, pride, and relational trauma.
? How to differentiate shame and pride as emotional processes from traumatic, mind/body states (i.e., shame and pride states). A description of the concept and phenomena of pro-being pride will be highlighted.
? A brief description of some relationships between shame and dissociation.
The final 45 minutes of this training will include:
? Therapist-patient and patient-patient (e.g., spouse with spouse) shame state reactivity, both within each person (i.e., intra-reactivity), and between patient and therapist, or patient and patient (i.e., inter-reactivity). This material is consistent with what psychodynamic practitioners call transference/countertransference and enactments. There will be some discussion of how to move from dyadic reactivity to therapeutic responsivity.
Following both parts of this training, there will be 15 minutes for Q&A and conversation with participants
Learning Objectives
At the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Describe one attribute that differentiates shame and pride as emotional processes, from shame and pride as traumatic, mind/body states (i.e., shame and pride states).
- Describe one example of spouse-spouse shame state intra-reactivity and inter-reactivity, and one therapeutic response that helps patients move from reactivity to responsivity.
Ken Benau, Ph.D., earned his doctorate in clinical psychology with a subspecialty in adult psychotherapy at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA, in 1988. Dr. Benau has been a California licensed clinical psychologist since 1990, and maintains a private practice in Kensington, CA. He provides individual, couple, and family therapy, professional consultation, and training. Dr. Benau has expertise in working with children and adults with various learning and developmental differences, including those living with LD, ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder. He has a special interest and expertise in shame and pride-informed psychotherapy with survivors of relational trauma (RT). Dr. Benau has presented his ideas about shame, pride, and dissociation and their therapeutic applications in psychotherapy with RT survivors at various international conferences, webinars and podcasts. He has also written several non-peer and peer reviewed articles with that same theme, where he introduced the concept and phenomena of pro-being pride, a powerful antidote to traumatic shame states. Pro-being pride is the experience of taking delight in one’s unique way of being and relating to oneself, others, and the world. Dr. Benau’s book, Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma: Concepts and Psychotherapy, was published by Routledge in March, 2022.
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