Shame : Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms

Akhtar, Salman (EDT)

Routledge（2019/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 250 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780367326845
• DDC分類 150.195

Full Description

This book offers ten distinguished analysts' insights on shame from various perspectives, which include its developmental substrate, vicissitudes during adolescence, and manifestations in the course of aging and infirmity. It seeks to advance clinicians' empathy and therapeutic skills in this realm.

Contents

Introduction -- Developmental Realm -- Shame in childhood -- Puberty, adolescence, and shame -- Shame across the adult lifespan -- Cultural Realm -- The cultural faces of shame -- Shame and murder-suicide: Adolf Hitler and the Nazi cult of death -- Clinical Realm -- Shame and shamelessness -- Laziness and its links to shame -- Shame and the aversion to apologizing -- The dialectic of shame in cross-cultural therapeutic encounters -- The role of shame in treating maniacal triumph and paranoia -- The analyst's sense of shame