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Is Shame a Barrier to Addiction Recovery?

A man hides his face with shame-related behavior during addiction recovery before he relapses.What if a therapist could detect your risk for relapse from addiction recovery just by the way you sat in a chair? For some time now, therapists have found shame to be a barrier for addiction recovery. However, self-reporting of shame has been an unreliable tool to help patients. So how can a therapist detect when a patient is suffering from recovery-sabotaging shame?

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