Shame Uncovered: Its Psychotherapy and Transformation

Investigating the role of core shame in psychopathologies and effective psychotherapies on it

Clinical and empirical evidence confirming the relationship between core shame and psychopathology types has shown that core shame is the cause of many mental disorders, in this regard investigating the origin of this emotion in the preventive direction and also studying underlying factors for treatment is important. In this paper, by a theoretical review of the causes and origins of this emoti...

The abject self: self-states of relentless despair.

Early childhood deprivation, attachment chaos, repeated medical traumata, and abuse set up neural networks of dread, shame, worthlessness, and hopelessness: the phenomenology of abject experience that resides in implicit memory. Abject interactions with others condense yearning and despair into complex enactments of abject suffering. Working in abject subgroups dilutes the intensity of abject m...

Transgenerational transmission of trauma: guilt, shame, and the "heroic dilemma".

Hypnotherapy and Regulated Uncovering in the Treatment of Older Survivors of Nazi Persecution

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION TO THE CHAPTER: In some ways, the previous case of paranoia also makes a nice contrast with depression. While the paranoids deny that they have a problem (and merely blame others), depressives tend to introject blame and shame from others. In other ways, dissociative reaction is the o posite of paranoia. The former represses traumatic memories, whi / e the latter indulges ...

The Phenomenology of Shame: A Qualitative Study

Shame is one of the emotions that a person experiences in a variety of everyday situations and many cases it is annoying. Shame is known as a moral emotion, yet its role in psychopathology has been emphasized. This study aimed to examine the lived experience of shame in individuals. This research is a qualitative study with a phenomenological approach. This research describes i...