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Shame in Context (Paperback)
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In this enlightening and gracefully written study, Susan Miller
examines shame in a variety of clinical contexts en route to a
richer understanding of shame dynamics. Miller attends especially
to the role of shame in creating and maintaining character
pathology and devotes separate sections of the book to shame in the
context of obsessive-compulsive, narcissistic, and masochistic
personality organizations. Within each of these clinical contexts,
a chapter of theoretical discussion is followed by a chapter of
engaging case examples. Integral to Shame in Context is Miller's
informed and thoughtful critique of current theories about shame,
including those of Broucek, Morrison, Schore, Wurmser, Nathanson,
and Kinston. In reviewing the contributions of these and other
writers, she is most concerned with achieving a balanced
comprehension of shame that incorporates the insights of different
theoretical perspectives without embracing the selective emphases
of any one investigator or school of thought. Like Freud, she
appreciates the defensive utility of shame, but she attends equally
to the painful and at times pathogenic acpects of shame
experiences. In line with more recent shame literature, she
emphasizes the pathogenicity of early shaming, but she is equally
sensitive to the role of shame in sustaining character defenses.
And she goes beyond the purview of other shame researchers in
examining the ways in which individuals unconsciously seek to
maintain shame experiences when these experiences sustain their
personality organizations. Offering a critical evaluation and
synthesis of contemporary shame theories, and culminating in a
balanced clinical understanding of shame in its various contexts,
Shame in Context takes its place as, in the words of Frances
Broucek, "the most sophisticated and definitive clinical study of
shame to date."
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