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Winner of the 2022 Gradiva® Award for Best Edited Book!
Understanding shame as a relational problem, Shame Matters explores how people, with support, can gradually move away from the relentless cycle of shame and find new and more satisfying ways of relating.
Orit Badouk Epstein brings together experts from across the world to explore different aspects of shame from an attachment perspective. The impact of racism and socio-economic factors on the development and experience of shame are discussed and illustrated with clinical narratives. Drawing upon the experience of infant researchers, trauma experts and therapists using somatic interventions, Shame Matters explores and develops understanding of the shameful deflations encountered in the consulting room and describes how new and empowered ways of relating can be nurtured. The book also details attachment-informed research into the experience of shame and outlines how it can be applied to clinical practice.
Shame Matters will be an invaluable companion for psychotherapists, clinical psychologists, counsellors, social workers, nurses, and others in the helping professions.
Contents
Foreword
Elizabeth Howell
Introduction
Orit Badouk-Epstein
1. Shame as a Behavioural System: Links to Attachment, Defence, and Dysregulation
Judith Solomon
2. Caring for the Human Spirit in Pride and Shame: A Moral Conscience Seeking Kindness from Birth
Colwyn Trevarthen
3. Primary Shame and the Economy of Affects
Orit Badouk Epstein
4. Attackments: Subjugation, Shame, and the Attachment to Painful Affects and Objects
Richard A. Chefetz
5. Shame and Black Identity Wounding: The Legacy of Internalised Oppression
Aileen Alleyne
6. Mentalizing Shame, Shamelessness, and Fremdscham (Shame by Proxy) in Groups
Ulrich Schultz-Venrath
7. The Aggressor Within: Attachment Trauma, Segregated Systems, and the Double Face of Shame
Adriano Schimmenti
8. Personal and Professional Reflections: Shame and Race
Elaine Arnold
9. Suicide Addict: The Sovereignty of Shame in the Dissociated Mind
Orit Badouk Epstein
