Understanding and Working with Shame
Understanding and Working with Shame: Psychotherapeutic, Cultural and Philosophical Perspectives
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032836024 | 310 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 20 MB
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032836024 | 310 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 20 MB
Exploring the phenomenology of one of the most vulnerable and painful of human emotions, shame, Jørgensen dives deep into its many facets and the ways in which it manifests in mental illnesses and everyday life. Delving into an in-depth discussion of the differentiation between the moral and ethical feelings of guilt and shame, he presses the need to distinguish between constructive and destructive feelings of shame. He examines how shame permeates societal and cultural expectations, on both individual and collective levels. Solution-centric in its approach, the author not only discusses the destructive feelings of shame particularly common among individuals with more severe mental disorders, but also offers specific advice to therapists on how to deal with it.