Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria

For the millions living with Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, the clinical literature has been almost silent. Until now. Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD) affects an estimated 99% of adults with ADHD, yet most therapists have never received a single hour of training in its assessment, presentation, or treatment. Clients arrive in crisis - flooding, shutting down, ending relationships, leaving jobs - and clinicians are left pattern-matching to diagnoses that never quite fit. Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria: The Therapist's Guide is the first clinical text dedicated entirely to RSD as a distinct therapeutic focus. Volume I: Foundations, Assessment, and Core Interventions equips practitioners with: - A comprehensive clinical framework for understanding RSD across neurological, developmental, and relational dimensions - Differential assessment protocols distinguishing RSD from social anxiety, borderline personality, complex PTSD, and avoidant attachment - The five-step clinical model: Recognize - Regulate - Reflect - Reframe - Repair - Somatic and nervous system interventions for the acute RSD cascade - Adapted approaches for neurodivergent, trauma-affected, and multiply-marginalized clients - Clinical reflective prompts throughout for integration into supervision and practice This is not a book about sensitivity as pathology. This is a book about building clinical competence for one of the most common, most painful, and most undertreated experiences your clients carry into your office every week. Written for therapists. Grounded in practice. Long overdue. *Volume I of the Luminous Prosperity Psychological Sciences series.