ABSTRACT
Morrison provides a critical history of analytic and psychiatric attempts to make sense of shame, beginning with Freud and culminating in Kohut's understanding of shame in terms of narcissistic phenomena. The clinical section of the book clarifies both the theoretical status and treatment implications of shame in relation to narcissistic personality disorder, neurosis and higher-level character pathology, and manic-depressive illness.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |17 pages
Introduction and Overview
part |67 pages
A Theoretical Framework
chapter |17 pages
Some Theoretical Perspectives on Shame
chapter |10 pages
Primitive Object Relations, Early Narcissism, and Shame
chapter |19 pages
Shame and Narcissism
part |111 pages
Clinical Applications