Shame and Guilt

This book whose influence and renown have steadily grown since its first publication is a psychoanalytic and cultural study of shame and guilt. In Part I Dr. Gerhart Piers a psychoanalyst gives concise definitions of these two previously inadequately define terms and clearly distinguishes between them. He discusses the experiences that can cause guilt or shame in an individual; why some persons develop into guilt-ridden individuals and others become shame-driven; and the special and sharply different therapeutic considerations that must be given to the person afflicted with guilt or shame. In Part II Dr. Milton Singer an anthropologist applies Dr. Piers analysis of guilt and shame within the individual to his own study of cultures.