ABSTRACT
Social connections, especially those that evolved for hunter-gatherer styles of living, are crucial to well-being. This chapter explores how the common experiences of shame and humiliation can be powerful sources of social and emotional disconnection and cut people off from the regulating effects of connectedness and the threat-regulation properties of the social safeness system. The chapter explores how shame and humiliation texture many types of mental health difficulties and antisocial behaviour. They are core therapeutic challenges.
