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Rethinking Shame
My dissertation defends the place of shame in moral psychology. I critique the two dominant accounts of shame in the current literature: the optimistic view, which states that shame is the experience of failing to live up to a virtue or excellence that one values, and the pessimistic view, which …
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Coping with shame: an exploration of shame and resilience among shame-prone trainees in the psychological therapies
Shame is a debilitating emotional state, affecting people’s psychological and physical wellbeing and the ability to remain in relationship with others. The negative impact on learning experience and more importantly on the ability to enter into healthy working relationships could lead to trainees …
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Shame in Athenian Oratory
My study explores the use of shame as an oratorical and rhetorical technique designed to lead the jurors during a court trial to sympathise with the speakers of the following orations of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.: Lysias’ On the Murder of Eratosthenes (1), Against Simon (3), Demosthenes’ …
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Shame in the Fabliaux
… This work focuses on methods of avoiding the shame emasculation in scenes from the fabliaux Berangier au lonc Cul, Du Prestre qui fu mis au lardier, Du Prestre crucefié and De la Saineresse. A fabliau is an amusing short story in poetic form, originally performed by troubadours and …
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Shame and the body
… Psychology, with a focus on the issues of shame and the body. i. Sections of the portfolio • Section A: Firstly I will present the research study which explores the lived experience of a changing body. This is investigated specifically in the context of individuals who have lost significant …
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Maternal control, shame, and alexithymia
… to identify and express what one is feeling) and shame (i.e. pervasive feelings of worthlessness and inadequacy; Kooiman et al., 2004; Kapur & Rai, 2013). A controlling mother can make her child feel like she lacks autonomy (i.e. she lacks a sense that she is capable of accomplishing important …
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Exploring Distinct Aspects of Shame and Guilt: Can Startle Reflex Modification Differentiate Shame from Guilt?
<p>Despite the similarities between shame and guilt, there is a growing body of evidence that shame and guilt are distinct emotional constructs. Guilt, despite its negative valence, is frequently associated with approach motivation, whereas shame is associated with withdrawal motivation. Research …
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Exploring the territory of shame: building awareness of ways in and out of shame through a co-creative investigation of metaphors around the shame experience
… to create a broad and accurate picture of the shame affect and provide both a description of the experience of the torment of shame, and ways out of shame. Five experienced psychotherapists, interested in shame, working as supervisors, trainers, managers of counselling and psychotherapy …
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Shame, guilt and mental health problems
… is the current scientific literature relating to shame and guilt. The review attempts to clarify the conceptual confusion regarding shame and guilt and in particular attempts to delineate the distinctions between the two constructs whilst acknowleding the intricate and entwined relationship. The …
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Shame, guilt, and denial in offenders
This Phi) examined shame, guilt, and denial in sexual, violent, and general offenders, aiming to reach a clear conceptualisation of these concepts. Hence a measure of shame, guilt, and denial was developed for use with offenders. The research also examined the association of shame, guilt, and …
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Cultivating resilience in the face of "not enough": exploring shame and shame-coping in U.S. college sport
… athletes may inevitably face ‘not enough,’ shame-inducing experiences in their sport (Coakley, 2016; Lazarus, 2000; Ryall, 2019). Shame is a destructive psycho-socio-cultural experience of psychological isolation that can lead to performance deficits and even withdrawal from sport (Elison & …
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Shame and Resilience among Pākehā New Zealanders
Shame can be a powerful and evocative experience. Shame can contribute to the development of mental illnesses, such as depressive, anxiety, and eating disorders. Shame can also contribute to social problems, such as violent crime. However, shame is experienced by almost everyone. While shame causes …
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Shame, Guilt and Society's Conception of Sex
… on sex and sexuality results in the presence of shame and guilt in our sexual lives. I first define society’s conception of sex and present it visually through fashion advertising. Each of the pornographic elements (objectification, submission, hierarchy and violence) utilized in advertising are …
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Shame, Guilt and Society's Conception of Sex
… on sex and sexuality results in the presence of shame and guilt in our sexual lives. I first define society’s conception of sex and present it visually through fashion advertising. Each of the pornographic elements (objectification, submission, hierarchy and violence) utilized in advertising are …
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The Relationship Between Trauma-Related Shame, Disordered Behaviors, and Contextual Factors of Sexual Trauma Beyond Trait-Shame and Sex-Guilt
… tactics, and relationship) and trauma-related shame and risk-taking motivations. Therefore, the current study aimed to examine this relationship among a sample of 360 undergraduate women with histories of sexual trauma, hypothesizing that trauma-related shame and motivations for participation …
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Guilt-proneness and shame-proneness in homeless children
… on the adaptive functions of guilt- and shame-proneness. As the conceptualization and measurement of these self-conscious emotions has improved, there has been a growing consensus that guilt-proneness serves an adaptive role within interpersonal domains whereas shame-proneness is …
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Shame: associations with childhood maltreatment and mental health
… literature review focuses on the experience of shame. In particular, research is presented which demonstrates how childhood maltreatment, especially<br/>psychological abuse, has been associated with the experience of internalised shame. Furthermore, research is presented demonstrating an …
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Therapists’ experiences of shame: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
Shame is a crucial issue frequently overlooked in the therapeutic context because it has many hiding places and inevitably reverberates with experiences of shame in the therapist. Therapists can be vulnerable to shame from multiple sources and without awareness of the activation of their shame, …
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Bound to Shame: Sexual Addiction and Christian Ethics
… observation that sex addicts in particular, and shame-bound people in general, behave in cycles of control and release to the types of the two sons in the Lukan parable of the prodigal. This parable may be understood as shedding light on the equal dangers of patterns of control and release. …
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