Shame : developmental, cultural, and clinical realms /

"A late-comer to psychoanalytic theorizing, 'shame' results from a disjunction between the ego and the ego-ideal. A complex psychosocial experience, it is comprised of a painful exposure of one's vulnerable aspects, rupture of self-continuity, and a sense of isolation. The figure...

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Other Authors: Akhtar, Salman, 1946 July 31- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Karnac, 2016.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; PART I DEVELOPMENTAL REALM; CHAPTER ONE Shame in childhood; CHAPTER TWO Puberty, adolescence, and shame; CHAPTER THREE Shame across the adult lifespan; PART II CULTURAL REALM; CHAPTER FOUR The cultural faces of shame; CHAPTER FIVE Shame and murder-suicide: Adolf Hitler and the Nazi cult of death; PART III CLINICAL REALM; CHAPTER SIX Shame and shamelessness; CHAPTER SEVEN Laziness and its links to shame; CHAPTER EIGHT Shame and the aversion to apologizing.
  • CHAPTER NINE The dialectic of shame in cross-cultural therapeutic encountersCHAPTER TEN The role of shame in treating maniaca ltriumph and paranoia; CHAPTER ELEVEN The analyst's sense of shame; References; INDEx.