Book Launch: Shame and Grace by Pat DeYoung

What to expect: a celebration of the release of Pat's new book, with readings and conversation between Pat and her colleague Susan Tarshis. Food and beverages provided.
There is a small ground-floor washroom. There is currently no parking on Harbord due to the watermain replacement. We're on the Spadina and Wellesley bus routes.
Pat DeYoung, MSW, PhD, a queer, white woman raised in the Evangelical heartland of America, has practiced psychotherapy in Toronto for nearly forty years. She was a founding faculty member of the Toronto Institute for Relational Psychotherapy. Her publications include Relational Psychotherapy: A Primer, and Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame: Healing Right Brain Relational Trauma.
Written after the death of her partner of thirty years, Shame and Grace grounds DeYoung's professional work in personal biography. She weaves theory and memoir together to reveal the power of chronic shame to isolate and annihilate. What also emerges is the power of yearning to make contact with a tenacious relational grace that seeks respect and compassion over judgement.

Susan Tarshis, BA, LLB, MEd, RP is a registered psychotherapist in full time private practice, and Associate Faculty with the Toronto Institute for Relational Psychotherapy. Her work is relational, intersubjective and intersectionally feminist. A graduate of TIRP, she works with adult individuals and has particular competencies with respect to gender and sexuality.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Caversham Booksellers, 98 Harbord Street, Toronto, Canada