Shame in the Therapy Hour

Abstract

The urge to hide, the action tendency of shame, is often realized in avoidant behavior such as substance abuse, depression, general or social anxiety, psychic numbing, cognitive efforts to undo reality, insensitivity to emotional and physical pain (both one's own and the pain of others) and dissociation. [...] seeking to raise awareness among mental health clinicians about the strikingly pathogenic effects of shame and offering tools across the board for regulating shame in psychotherapy, they give us this edited volume in which a group of clinicians provide guidance on how to recognize and regulate shame.