Series 2 Ep #8 Shame and Anger

How are shame and anger connected? In this episode Dr Leslie Greenberg speaks of shame as ‘the most painful emotion’ and describes how the experience of feeling worthless can interact with anger. Listen in to find out how an understanding of this interaction might be helpful in changing difficult experiences of both shame and anger and our relationship to both these emotions.

Dr Leslie Greenberg is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at the Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto Canada. He is the primary developer of Emotions Focused Therapy (EFT) and author and co-author of numerous books about EFT, most recently Changing Emotion with Emotion and Shame and Anger in Psychotherapy.

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