A01=Judith Pilla
addiction
Author_Judith Pilla
Category=VFJQ
Category=VFJS
Category=VS
clinical application
emotional health
eq_bestseller
eq_health-lifestyle
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_self-help
forthcoming
healing shame
imposter syndrome
mental health
neurological basis of emotion
relationships
revolutionary treatment
self-esteem
self-healing
Shame
shame resolution
social signaling
therapeutic tools
transformative psychology
trauma recovery
treating shame
understanding shame
Product details
- ISBN 9780757325618
- Weight: 367g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 22 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Health Communications
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
The emotion you dread above all hides a secret code for living your best life.
Nothing undermines people’s health and happiness more than shame, but we don’t understand how shame really works nor how powerfully it affects us. Beyond the difficult, distressing emotion we hide or try to defeat, shame is also a universal, continuous, neurologically-based communications system designed to protect your well-being, guide you to success, warn you of harm, secure your community, and potentially save your life.
In How Shame Runs the World, Dr. Judith Pilla upends our traditional view with groundbreaking understanding that finally gets it right about shame. Her practical, clinically-proven, jargon-free steps will teach you to decode all of shame’s messages—the hurtful, damaging ones you’ll finally be able to eliminate permanently as well as vital ones that better your life every day. Her steps will guide professionals, too, improving outcomes in psychotherapy, addiction treatment, medical care, and even in social policy.
Through plentiful historical, cultural, and clinical examples, you will learn to:
This book’s revolutionary look at our most misunderstood and underappreciated emotion cracks the code of shame’s astonishing power. It will help you become your most confident, effective, authentic self—as an individual, in your relationships, and in your wider world.
Nothing undermines people’s health and happiness more than shame, but we don’t understand how shame really works nor how powerfully it affects us. Beyond the difficult, distressing emotion we hide or try to defeat, shame is also a universal, continuous, neurologically-based communications system designed to protect your well-being, guide you to success, warn you of harm, secure your community, and potentially save your life.
In How Shame Runs the World, Dr. Judith Pilla upends our traditional view with groundbreaking understanding that finally gets it right about shame. Her practical, clinically-proven, jargon-free steps will teach you to decode all of shame’s messages—the hurtful, damaging ones you’ll finally be able to eliminate permanently as well as vital ones that better your life every day. Her steps will guide professionals, too, improving outcomes in psychotherapy, addiction treatment, medical care, and even in social policy.
Through plentiful historical, cultural, and clinical examples, you will learn to:
- Heal shame that drives many health problems, including anxiety, depression, poor self-esteem, aggression, impacts of trauma, imposter syndrome, procrastination, perfectionism, disordered eating, alcoholism, and more.
- Manage shame that is a colossal and frequent source of discord among couples, family members, friends, and coworkers.
- Recognize the growing issue of public shame as used today to control us as a whole society, reshaping our values; manipulating commerce and politics; and changing our national story.
This book’s revolutionary look at our most misunderstood and underappreciated emotion cracks the code of shame’s astonishing power. It will help you become your most confident, effective, authentic self—as an individual, in your relationships, and in your wider world.
Judith M. Pilla, PhD, is a psychotherapist in private practice with over two decades of experience successfully treating individuals, couples, families, and groups. For the past ten years, she has focused her study, research, and clinical practice on understanding the problems engendered by shame. She contributes as an international presenter and workshop leader on the subject for professional clinicians and the public in countries as diverse as Sweden, Canada, Israel, England, and across the United States. Her expertise as a clinical nurse specialist in psychiatry, a clinical social worker, and director of qualitative research for a global healthcare company, grounds her commitment to scientific research, evidence-based knowledge, and the use of clinically proven methods in her practice. She is the winner of the Joan Sall Rivitz fellowship award for her doctoral research at Bryn Mawr College and is a charter member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing at Thomas Jefferson University. She and her husband live outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In addition to her clinical practice and her writing, she devotes time to being the proud mother of two adult children with their wonderful families.
