Shame Matters

<p><strong>Winner of the 2022 Gradiva® Award for Best Edited Book!</strong></p><p>Understanding shame as a relational problem, <i>Shame Matters</i> explores how people, with support, can gradually move away from the relentless cycle of shame and find new and more satisfying ways of relating.</p><p>Orit Badouk Epstein brings together experts from across the world to explore different aspects of shame from an attachment perspective. The impact of racism and socio-economic factors on the development and experience of shame are discussed and illustrated with clinical narratives. Drawing upon the experience of infant researchers, trauma experts and therapists using somatic interventions, <i>Shame Matters</i> explores and develops understanding of the shameful deflations encountered in the consulting room and describes how new and empowered ways of relating can be nurtured. The book also details attachment-informed research into the experience of shame and outlines how it can be applied to clinical practice. </p><p>Shame Matters will be an invaluable companion for psychotherapists, clinical psychologists, counsellors, social workers, nurses, and others in the helping professions. </p> <p>Foreword</p><p>Elizabeth Howell</p><p>Introduction</p><p>Orit Badouk-Epstein</p><p>1. Shame as a Behavioural System: Links to Attachment, Defence, and Dysregulation </p><p>Judith Solomon</p><p>2. Caring for the Human Spirit in Pride and Shame: A Moral Conscience Seeking Kindness from Birth</p><p>Colwyn Trevarthen</p><p>3. Primary Shame and the Economy of Affects</p><p>Orit Badouk Epstein</p><p>4. Attackments: Subjugation, Shame, and the Attachment to Painful Affects and Objects</p><p>Richard A. Chefetz</p><p>5. Shame and Black Identity Wounding: The Legacy of Internalised Oppression</p><p>Aileen Alleyne</p><p>6. Mentalizing Shame, Shamelessness, and Fremdscham (Shame by Proxy) in Groups </p><p>Ulrich Schultz-Venrath</p><p>7. The Aggressor Within: Attachment Trauma, Segregated Systems, and the Double Face of Shame </p><p>Adriano Schimmenti </p><p>8. Personal and Professional Reflections: Shame and Race</p><p>Elaine Arnold</p><p>9. Suicide Addict: The Sovereignty of Shame in the Dissociated Mind</p><p>Orit Badouk Epstein</p>