Table of Contents

Foundations. Shame in Obsessive-Compulsive Contexts. Shame in Obsessive-Compulsive Personalities: Expanded Contexts. Shame in the Background: Narcissistic Disturbances. Narcissistic Disturbances: Case Examples and Discussion. Shame in the Foreground: Early Roots of Moral Masochism. Masochism: Case Examples. Giving and Receiving: Gift Commerce, Shame, and Pride.

About the Author

A graduate of the University of Michigan doctoral program in clinical psychology, Susan B. Miller, Ph.D., is the author of The Shame Experience and Disgust, both published by The Analytic Press. Her first novel, Indigo Rosemartin, was published by Bantam/Dell in December 2004. Dr. Miller lives and practices in Ann Arbor, MI.

Reviews

"Shame in Context is a pleasure to read not only because of Susan Miller's well-honed writing skills, but also because she brings to bear on her subject a combination of scholarly erudition, analytic depth, and an amazing synthetic talent. She assembles the salient theories in the recent literature on shame, sifts them, affirms or challenges them, and offers her own trenchant evaluation of these often conflicting ways of understanding the role of shame in the etiology and dynamics of various clinical conditions. She does all this with admirable grace, balance, and respect for the contributions of her coworkers. I believe Miller has written the most sophisticated and definitive clinical study of shame to date - and she has done so quite beautifully." - Francis J. Broucek, M.D., Author, Shame and the Self"Shame in Context is a wonderful synthesis of the major ideas in the shame literature of the past several decades. It addresses many essential topics, including the clinical significance of this affect, its role in the concert of inner motives, and especially its functions in inner conflict. Miller's very readable, often poetically written book interweaves theory with ample and in-depth cases, providing us with very useful ways of dealing with concrete clinical situations involving the broad range of shame affects and shame attitudes."- Leon Wurmser, M.D., Author, The Mask of Shame