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The author exposes the many masks of shame and examines the way it
paralyzes us, individually and collectively. He draws on powerful
case stories to illustrate the language and impact of shame and how
it can be overcome.
"The Widening Scope of Shame" is the first collection of papers on
shame to appear in a decade and contains contributions from most of
the major authors currently writing on this topic. It is not a
sourcebook, but a comprehensive introduction to clinical and
theoretical perspectives on shame that is intended to be read cover
to cover.
The panoramic scope of this multidisciplinary volume is evidenced
by a variety of clinically and developmentally grounded chapters;
by chapters explicating the theories of Silvan Tomkins and Helen
Block Lewis; and by chapters examining shame from the viewpoints of
philosophy, social theory, and the study of family systems. A final
section of brief chapters illuminates shame in relation to specific
clinical problems and experiential contexts, including envy,
attention deficit disorder, infertility, masochism, the medical
setting, and religious experience.
This collection will be of special interest to psychoanalytically
oriented readers. It begins with a chapter charting the evolution
of Freud's thinking on shame, followed by chapters providing
contemporary perspectives on the role of shame in development, and
the status of shame within the theory of narcissism. Of further
psychoanalytic interest are two reprinted classics by Sidney Levin
on shame and marital dysfunction.
In both depth of clinical coverage and breadth of perspectives,
"The Widening Scope of Shame" is unique in the shame literature.
Readable, well organized, and completely up to date, it becomes
essential reading for all students of this intriguing and
unsettling emotion and of human development more generally.
Morrison provides a critical history of analytic and psychiatric
attempts to make sense of shame, beginning with Freud and
culminating in Kohut's understanding of shame in terms of
narcissistic phenomena. The clinical section of the book clarifies
both the theoretical status and treatment implications of shame in
relation to narcissistic personality disorder, neurosis and
higher-level character pathology, and manic-depressive illness.
An essential collection on leading psychoanalyses of narcissism
Narcissism has recently been the focus of debate among
professionals, in large part due to the controversies surrounding
the world of Heinz Kohut and Otto Kernberg. Yet much has been
written about narcissism throughout the history of psychoanalysis
and this carefully selected collection brings together the
essential work on narcissism. The book first puts forth the major
theoretical formulations - self-psychology, object relations,
psychodynamics - and then explores diagnostic and therapeutic
applications. The book offers landmark classic and contemporary
contributions by authors such as Annie Reich, Heinz Kohut, Otto
Kernberg, Alice Miller, Arnold Modell, and many others.
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