Table of Contents

Part I. Conceptual Issues 1: Paul Gilbert: What is Shame? Some Core Issues and Controversies 2: Bernice Andrews: Methodological and Definitional Issues in Shame Research Part II. Interpersonal Behavior 3: Allan N. Schore: Early Shame Experiences and Infant Brain Development 4: Dacher Keltner & Lee Anne Harker: The Forms and Functions of the Nonverbal Signal of Shame 5: Paul Gilbert & Michael T. McGuire: Shame, Status, and Social Roles: Psychobiology and Evolution 6: Michael Lewis: Shame & Stigma 7: James Macdonald: Disclosing Shame Part III. Psychopathology 8: Digby Tantam: The Emotional Disorders of Shame 9: Bernice Andrews: Shame and Childhood Abuse 10: Thomas J. Scheff: Shame in the Labeling of Mental Illness 11: Suzanne M. Retzinger: Shame in the Therapeutic Relationship Part IV. Culture 12: Deborah F. Greenwald and David W. Harder: Domains of Shame: Evolutionary, Cultural, and Psychotherapeutic Aspects 13: Nancy Lindisfarne: Gender, Shame, and Culture: An Anthropological Perspective 14: Dov Cohen, Joseph Vandello and Adrian K. Rantilla: The Sacred and the Social: Cultures of Honor and Violence

Reviews

"This is both a complex and informative book and in this reviewer's opinion, an important addition in the field. ...a book of usefulness and great interest" Suzanna Rose, Counselling, 248, 1999