Shame as a behavioural system: links to attachment, defence, and dysregulation / Judith Solomon -- Caring for the human spirit in pride and shame: a moral conscience seeking kindness from birth / Colwyn Trevarthen -- Primary shame and the economy of affects / Orit Badouk Epstein -- Attackments: subjugation, shame, and the attachment to painful affects and objects / Richard A. Chefetz -- Shame and Black identity wounding: the legacy of internalised oppression / Aileen Alleyne -- Mentalizing shame, shamelessness, and fremdscham (shame by proxy) in groups / Ulrich Schultz-Venrath -- The aggressor within: attachment trauma, segregated systems, and the double face of shame / Adriano Schimmenti -- Personal and professional reflections: shame and race / Elaine Arnold -- Suicide addict: the sovereignty of shame in the dissociated mind / Orit Badouk Epstein.
"Shame can be one of the most paralysing of emotions and seems to emerge as a consequence of early or contemporary attachment traumas. Understanding shame as a relational problem, this book explores how people, with support, can gradually move away from the relentless cycle of shame and find new and more satisfying ways of relating"--