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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They're all like therapy horoscopes.  Sounds lovely and those searching for inspiration or guidance will find some nugget to be all "OMG SO TRUE!!!" over.  I find Doyle and Hollis in particular to be toxic in their self-absorption and feel sorry for their families/the people they leave in their wake.  Brown has some clips that I like - the one about sympathy vs. empathy, for example - but agree that a lot of her other stuff doesn't hold up to real-world applications the way she seems to think it should.[/quote]

Psychologist in my 50's here...I guess it really for me never felt like her work was particularly original or innovative. Shame was a huge topic in the 80's and 90's during the huge "inner child movement". Multiple self help writers covered shame, everyone from Harriet Lerner, to John Bradshaw. New age writers talked about shame too and still do..hell Freud discussed the difference between shame and guilt nearly 100 years ago and in psychology this area blossomed in the 80's as the topic of narcissism skyrocketed in the United States. Is it that her work is in a department like Education, so she does not cross over with the psychological literature as much as one would think? This baffles me....now she's talking shame in working. Meanwhile Industrial psychologists I woukd think study this in depth and have been for years. I get that most people reading her were not reading self help in the 80's...for me, I feel like many others have said what she is saying. But obviously, she has tapped a market and her work touches people which is an accomplishment in and of itself. I am curious...What academic dept was Brown in? Does anyone know?[/quote]
I think Brown holds a lot of appeal for people a bit younger than you. I’m 37 and was introduced to her by a counselor. She packages things in a very accessible way. I don’t know if that’s also true of the people you are referencing because I was not conscious of their work. [/quote]

Yes that's a great point, she is accessible and a clear communicator and her work resonates.[/quote]

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