Routledge Shame: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms

This book offers ten distinguished analysts' insights on shame from various perspectives, which include its developmental substrate, vicissitudes during adolescence, and manifestations in the course of aging and infirmity. It seeks to advance clinicians' empathy and therapeutic skills in this realm. Review "Aiming to advance clinicians' empathy and therapeutic skills in treating patients who have experienced chronic narcissistic humiliation and suffered from shame, this book provides us with a discourse of enormous value. Ranging widely over this insufficiently attended aspect of human anguish, the contributors to this book teach us about its nature, its origins, and its clinical remediation."--Henri Parens, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Thomas Jefferson University; Training & Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia "From developmental through cultural to clinical aspects of shame, this book is a tour de force about a topic that has not been addressed in such exquisite and useful detail. Akhtar and his contributors have created a true gem that enhances our understanding of the vicissitudes of this painful affect. Replete with clinical vignettes, the book offers many technical guidelines for working with patients afflicted with life-long shame. The inclusion of shamelessness in this collection only serves to make it more of a must read!"--Aisha Abbasi, MD, President and Training and Supervising Analyst, Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute About the Author Akhtar, Salman