Easy Ego State Interventions, Robin Shapiro
Easy Ego State Interventions, Robin Shapiro
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Easy Ego State Interventions
Strategies for Working With Parts

Author: Robin Shapiro

Narrator: Nan McNamara

Unabridged: 5 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/27/2019

Synopsis

Most of us have different aspects, "parts," or "ego states" of ourselves—the silly and imaginative five-year-old part, for example, or the depressed, anxious, or angry adolescent—which manifest as particular moods, behaviors, and reactions depending on the demands of our external and internal environments. "Ego state therapy" refers to a powerful, flexible therapy that helps clients integrate and reconcile these distinct aspects of themselves.

This book offers a grab bag of ego state interventions—simple, practical techniques for a range of client issues—that any therapist can incorporate in his or her practice. In her characteristic wise, compassionate, and user-friendly writing style, Robin Shapiro explains what ego states are, how to access them in clients, and how to use them for a variety of treatment issues. After covering foundational interventions for accessing positive adult states, creating internal caregivers, and working with infant and child states in Part I: Getting Started With Ego State Work, Shapiro walks listeners step-by-step through a variety of specific interventions for specific problems, each ready for immediate application with clients. Part II: Problem-Specific Interventions includes chapters devoted to working with trauma, relationship challenges, personality disorders, suicidal ideation, and more.

About Robin Shapiro

Robin Shapiro, LICSW, is known for her clear, accessible, and practical style in writing, teaching and clinical consultation. She edited and contributed to EMDR Solutions: Pathways to Healing and EMDR Solutions II: Depression, Eating Disorders, Performance & More and wrote Trauma Treatments Handbook, and Easy Ego State Interventions. She loves her work: writing, presenting about ego states, EMDR topics, and suicide prevention, doing clinical consultation, and thirty-eight years of psychotherapy practice, especially around issues of trauma, anxiety, and attachment.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Beth on December 05, 2021

I’ve been a mental health provider for 8 years, and I have never had anything click for me as a clinician — or as a client — more than ego states. Holy moly this book and these processes! Healing! Powerful! I feel re-energized as a professional. I feel emotionally taxed as a human. But seriously. Th......more

Goodreads review by Nathan on October 26, 2020

Clear and concise explanation of the interpersonal family, and how it can affect people's mental health. It also calls into action about your own interpersonal family and how it works. I would not only recommend it to therapists, but to those who are interested in how the brain processes emotional e......more

Goodreads review by Christine on February 24, 2023

Really enjoyed this book! It provides a lot of information pertaining different “parts” and how to work with them. Shapiro provides different cases (e.g. suicidal, complex trauma etc..) and ways to deal with such cases. As an EMDR therapist, I recommend this book to those interested in ego state the......more

Goodreads review by Nikki on April 02, 2025

I got a bit lost in all of the case examples. I mean they’re helpful but I did skim skim skim and I just wanted to read more about interventions not in case example format personally and respectfully. Great relevant stuff though and I will consider this in my practice but not sure I’d say this is my......more

Goodreads review by Whitney on August 27, 2023

I always appreciate when a book can break down a theory/process into digestible steps and case examples. Real life does not always follow a linear format but having a book that presents the foundational steps really helps!......more

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