Shame : Theory, Therapy, Theology

by Stephen Pattison

• ISBN13: 9780521568630
• ISBN10: 0521568633
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-06
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This interdisciplinary study brings together many contemporary discourses about shame within a new critical perspective. It will be an invaluable, stimulating resource for all those who are concerned with understanding shame and assisting those whose lives are lived in the shadow of it. Psychologists, philosophers and therapists will find this a fascinating source of new insight into the theory and phenomenology of shame. It will be of particular interest to those who are interested in relationships between religion and mental health, to pastoral workers, and to religious thinkers and theorists.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(17)
PART 1 APPROACHING SHAME
Introduction: establishing a theoretical orientation	18	(3)
Emotional confusion	21	(18)
Problems in approaching shame	39	(30)
PART II ENCOUNTERING SHAME
Overview of Part II	66	(3)
The ecology of shame	69	(24)
Chronic shame	93	(17)
Some effects and implications of chronic shame	110	(21)
Aspects of the socio-historical significance of shame	131	(23)
Dealing with shame: the task of integration	154	(35)
Summary: towards a working understanding of shame	181	(5)
PART III SHAME AND CHRISTIANITY
Introduction: bringing Christianity into the picture	186	(3)
Modern Christian responses to shame	189	(40)
Shame in Christianity	229	(46)
Towards more adequate approaches to shame	275	(35)
Epilogue	310	(7)
Bibliography	317	(18)
Index	335