Top twelve books on shame. Each of these books are recommended form the-emotions.com site.

Healing the Shame that Binds You: Recovery Classics Edition (Recovery Classics)	Soul Without Shame	Healing Your Emotional Self: A Powerful Program to Help You Raise Your Esteem, Quiet Your Inner Critic, and Overcome Your Shame	Letting Go of Shame: Understanding How Shame Affects Your Life
Facing Shame: Families in Recovery	Shame & Guilt: Masters of Disguise	Practically Shameless: How Shadow Work Helped Me Find My Voice, My Path, and My Inner Gold	Shame and Pride: Affect, Sex, and the Birth of the Self
Shame: The Power of Caring	Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader	The Many Faces of Shame	Shame and Guilt (Emotions And Social Behavior)

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Shame and Grace: Healing the Shame We Don't Deserve . If you persistently feel don't measure up, you are feeling shame -- that "vague",undefined heaviness that presses on our spirit, dampens our gratitude for the goodness of life," and diminishes our joy. The good news is that you can find in this book how shame can be healed.
Tired of Trying to Measure Up: Getting Free from the Demands, Expectations, and Intimidation of Well-Meaning People. Are you always trying hard, but feel like it's never good enough? Tired of Trying to Measure Up is written for Christians who live under a deeply ingrained code of expectations and rules that shame them and drain them of spiritual strength. Do you wonder: * Why do I feel so guilty? * Why is it so hard to rest, even when I know I need to? * Why does my religious activity leave me unfulfilled? * Where's the "abundant life" God promised? If these questions sound familiar, this book is for you.
Released from Shame: Moving Beyond the Pain of the Past . Several questions are given to find is you are experiencing shame. Often shame comes from being raised in a family that has an impaired ability to provide its members with healthy nurturing. As a result, you carry emotional scars into adult life, longing for happiness but feeling unworthy of it.Sandra Wilson knows much about "shame-based" families--both from personal experience and from her years as a family therapist. Drawing from this background, she teaches you biblical principles that have helped her and many others work through painful issues and learn new, healthier ways to live. In this revised edition, Wilson also includes help for parents who want to break the intergenerational cycle of shame and give their children a "grace-based" foundation for life.
The Psychology of Shame: Theory and Treatment of Shame-Based Syndromes, Second Edition . General classes of shame-based syndromes including compulsive; schizoid, depressive, and paranoid; sexual dysfunction; splitting; and sociopathic. This second edition includes two new chapters in which Dr. Kaufman presents shame as a societal dynamic and shows the impact of shame on culture. He examines the role of shame in shaping the evolving identity of racial, ethnic, and religious minorities, and expands his theory of governing scenes.
On Shame (Thinking in Action). The book On Shame draws on historical and current affairs to explore the emotion of shame, as well as films such as Night and Fog, Ghosts of Rwanda and Life is Beautiful and the work of Primo Levi and J.M. Coetzee to illustrate how works of art can both produce an experience of shame and be themselves objects of which we should be ashamed.

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