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How long does it take to read Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame?

Patricia A. DeYoung

Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame by Patricia A. DeYoung takes about 5 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 26 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2015. 296 pages, about 81,400 words.

11 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 9 hours 3 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 26 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 24 minutes

The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Chronic shame is painful, corrosive, and elusive. It resists self-help and undermines even intensive psychoanalysis. Patricia A. DeYoung's cutting-edge book gives chronic shame the serious attention it deserves, integrating new brain science with an inclusive tradition of relational psychotherapy. She looks behind the myriad symptoms of shame to its relational essence. As DeYoung describes how chronic shame is wired into the brain and developed in personality, she clarifies complex concepts and makes them available for everyday therapy practice. Grounded in clinical experience and alive with case examples, Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame is highly readable and immediately helpful. Patricia A. DeYoung's clear, engaging writing helps readers recognize the presence of shame in the therapy room, think through its origins and effects in their clients' lives, and decide how best to work with those clients. Therapists will find that Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame enhances the scope of their practice and efficacy with this client group, which comprises a large part of most therapy practices. Challenging, enlightening, and nourishing, this book belongs in the library of every shame-aware therapist.

Subjects: Shame, Psychotherapist and patient, Psychotherapy, Rational-Emotive, HEALTH & FITNESS, Diseases, MEDICAL

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