Emotional Orphans
Healing Our Throwaway Children
Cate Shepherd
Review by Shelly Goodman, PhD

Cate Shepherd allows us to enter into her life’s traumas and her volume reminds us of what always must remain the central issue in the treatment, most especially with the so severely wounded patient population she has worked with, that being effective treatment grows from the unique and healing bond between patient and therapist. We can vividly see her world forming the kind of secure attachments that further empathy and self-regulation. Shepherd graphically conveys how she moves along with the troubled youngsters she lives and works with in a parallel manner that creates a bond for even the most despairing. I feel it is crucial to state ever so clearly that in reading her text I felt I was standing beside her and saw how the wounds of the healer are Continue reading Emotional Orphans: Healing Our Throwaway Children by Cate Shepherd

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