The Widening Scope of Shame

Melvin R. Lansky, Andrew P. Morrison

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781317771371
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychologie
• Subtopic: Angewandte Psychologie

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.

Index

A

Absoluteness, in moral masochism, 378-379

Abstemiousness, stance of, 36

Abstractness, 114, 119

Acceleration, 121-122

Acceptability, 13, 99

Acceptance, 205

Acknowledgment, Nietzsche's view on, 197

Action, 49, 166, 167

Adam and Eve, shame and, 173, 174, 206-207, 233

Adamson, L., 49, 62

Adler, A., 66, 84, 140, 149, 150, 153, 220, 228, 314, 322, 336, 337

Freud's discussion of, 15

shame and, 66

view on pathological shame, 150

Adolescents, shame in, 388

Adult, affect production in, 339

Affect, 36, 45, 46, 89, 111-112

ability to tolerate, arrest in, 277

activation of, 112, 113, 114, 261

activators of, 113

amplification, 125

amplification of sex drive by, 115

as analog amplifier, 122, 262

Basch's view on, 342

basic, 121

biological systems for, 110

cause and effect relationship, 51n

density, 128

differentiated from emotion, 134

drives and, 111

experience of, 79, 119, 132, 133t, 344

innate, 115, 116, 117, 123, 131, 133, 136, 356

shame as, 46, 47

Tomkins's view on, 120

integration, 78, 79

interaffectivity, 344, 345

within intersubjective system, 79-80

learned triggers for, 128

magnification, 125

management, 356

match and mismatch with other mechanisms, 119

mechanism, 119

motivational primacy of, 78

mutualization of, 348

negative, 45, 56, 112, 126

hierarchy of, 123-124

shame as, 124

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• I Psychoanalytic Perspectives
• II Biology, Psychology, Philosophy, Social Theory
• III The Family
• IV Clinical and Religious
• Index