Fawning - Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves and How to Find Our

From a clinical psychologist and expert in complex trauma recovery comes a powerful guide introducing Most of us are familiar with the three Fs of trauma--flight, fight, 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 Fawning explains why we stay in bad jobs, fall into unhealthy partnerships, and seek out dysfunctional environments, even when it seems so obvious to others that we should go. And fawning The good news: we can break the pattern of chronic fawning for good, once we see it for the trauma response it is. Drawing on twenty years of clinical psychology work--as well as a lifetime of experience as a recovering fawner herself--Dr. Ingrid Clayton has written a groundbreaking book that brings this emerging concept into the mainstream conversation. Readers will learn WHY we fawn, HOW to recognize the signs of fawning (including taking blame, conflict avoidance, hypervigilance, and caretaking at the expense of ourselves), and WHAT we can do to successfully “unfawn” and finally be ourselves, in all our imperfect perfection. A landmark book full of empathy and understanding,

About the author

Dr. Ingrid Clayton is a licensed clinical psychologist with a master’s in transpersonal psychology and a PhD in clinical psychology. She has had a thriving private practice for more than sixteen years and is a regular contributor to Psychology Today, where her blog Emotional Sobriety has received more than one million views. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

Product details

• Authors: Ingrid Clayton
• Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.09.2025
• EAN: 9798217045327
• ISBN: 9798217045327
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 236 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Partnership, sexuality; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Love & Romance, Psychology, SELF-HELP / Communication & Social Skills, Assertiveness, motivation & self-esteem, Dating, relationships, living together & marriage, PSYCHOLOGY / Trauma Psychology