ABSTRACT
The study of shame, as we have seen all through this book, transforms our understanding of psychotherapy, relationship, and human nature and process. And yet this study, as many of the authors in this collection have noted, has been curiously long in coming. Why? Why has an affect that dynamically regulates other affects—modulates the operation of contact in the field, as Bob Lee puts it, in Gestalt terms—received so little attention in the inherited literature of psychotherapy until very recent years?
