Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves--And How to Find Our Way Back -- Ingrid Clayton, Hardcover
From a clinical psychologist and expert in complex trauma recovery comes a powerful guide introducing fawning, an often-overlooked piece of the fight-flight-freeze reaction to trauma--explaining what it is, why it happens, and how to help survivors regain their voice and sense of self. Most of us are familiar with the three F's of trauma--fight, flight, or freeze. But psychologists have identified a fourth, extremely common (yet little-understood) response: fawning. Often conflated with "codependency" or "people-pleasing," fawning occurs when we inexplicably draw closer to a person or relationship that causes pain, rather than pulling away.
- Do you apologize to people who have hurt you?
- Ignore their bad behavior?
- Befriend your bullies?
- Obsess about saying the right thing?
- Make yourself into someone you're not . . . while seeking approval that may never come?
Author: Ingrid Clayton
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 9/9/2025
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99 lbs
Size: 9.16" H x 6.33" L x 1.09" W
ISBN: 9798217045327
