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The Psychology of Shame: Theory and Treatment of Shame-Based Syndromes 2nd Edition

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In this classic volume, Kaufman synthesizes object relations theory, interpersonal theory, and, in particular, Silvan Tompkins's affect theory, to provide a powerful and multidimensional view of shame. Using his own clinical experience, he illustrates the application of affect theory to general classes of shame-based syndromes including compulsive; schizoid, depressive, and paranoid; sexual dysfunction; splitting; and sociopathic. This second edition includes two new chapters in which Dr. Kaufman presents shame as a societal dynamic and shows its impact on culture. He examines the role of shame in shaping the evolving identity of racial, ethnic, and religious minorities, and expands his theory of governing scenes. This new edition will continue to be of keen interest to clinical psychiatrists as well as graduate students.

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    Springer Publishing Company
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    January 1, 2004
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    6 x 0.85 x 9 inches
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    364 pages
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In this classic volume, Kaufman synthesizes object relations theory, interpersonal theory, and, in particular, Silvan Tompkins's affect theory, to provide a powerful and multidimensional view of shame. Using his own clinical experience, he illustrates the application of affect theory to general classes of shame-based syndromes including compulsive; schizoid, depressive, and paranoid; sexual dysfunction; splitting; and sociopathic. This second edition includes two new chapters in which Dr. Kaufman presents shame as a societal dynamic and shows its impact on culture. He examines the role of shame in shaping the evolving identity of racial, ethnic, and religious minorities, and expands his theory of governing scenes. This new edition will continue to be of keen interest to clinical psychiatrists as well as graduate students. "

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Gershen Kaufman, PhD, is professor in the Counseling Center and Psychology Department at Michigan State University.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Springer Publishing Company; 2nd edition (January 1, 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 364 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0826166725
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0826166722
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.14 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.85 x 9 inches
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    GERSHEN KAUFMAN was educated at Columbia University and received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Rochester. He is now professor emeritus, Counseling Center and Psychology Department, at Michigan State University. For thirty-six years he was actively engaged there in providing psychotherapeutic services to university students; consultation to university faculty and staff; clinical supervision and training to psychology practicum students and interns; research supervision to graduate students; and teaching a course on Affect and Self-Esteem in the Psychology Department. Kaufman also maintained a private practice as a licensed psychologist until 2010, where he treated a broad range of clientele in psychotherapy.

    A pioneer in the study of shame, Kaufman is the author of The Psychology of Shame: Theory and Treatment of Shame-Based Syndromes, Second Edition (Springer Publishing Co., 1996) and Shame: The Power of Caring, Third Edition (Schenkman Books, 1992). He is the coauthor with Lev Raphael of Stick Up For Yourself! Every Kid's Guide to Personal Power and Positive Self-Esteem, Third Edition (Free Spirit Publishing, 2019); A Teacher's Guide to Stick Up For Yourself, Third Edition (Free Spirit Publishing, 2019); Coming Out of Shame: Transforming Gay and Lesbian Lives (Doubleday, 1996); and Dynamics of Power: Fighting Shame and Building Self-Esteem, Second Edition (Schenkman Books, 1991).

    Kaufman has been widely in demand as a lecturer over the past forty years throughout the United States, Canada, Israel, and England. He has lectured as well as conducted seminars and workshops on the role of shame in personality, psychopathology, and psychotherapy; on shame and self-esteem; and on the significance of shame for gender, culture, and society. He has lectured at universities, medical centers, teaching hospitals, meetings of the American Psychiatric Association, state Psychological Association meetings, state Social Workers Association meetings, addiction treatment centers, and numerous conferences. Kaufman has also presented to many professional and lay groups an innovative self-esteem curriculum that can be implemented either in clinical or educational settings.

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Charlie
5.0 out of 5 stars The Psychology of Shame:Theory and Treatment of Shamed based syndromes by Gershen Kaufman
Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2011
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This is my new Bible for the study of Shame. A broad review of the entire subject but uniquely allows the reader to dig deeper into the material so as to reach a much greater understanding of this complex and often misunderstood subject(s).
I have read many text books and books on shame and Gershen has been able to open my mind even further on the subject. He is one of the new bread of Pychology authors which allows the informed student to move freely within the material without experiencing ambiguous ideas or statement within the material. This book can set the stag for our ultimate understanding of a subject that influences our lives more than any other.
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Meech33
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book on shame
Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2015
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I paid to rent this book for two months and ended up buying the print version. Great book on shame.
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stephanie
5.0 out of 5 stars A great resource for any clinician
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2018
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Great, informative book
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Not Moses
5.0 out of 5 stars A Major Milestone in the Deconstruction of Western Cult-ure
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2016
"Two widespread images of shaming in Western culture involve repeatedly pointing and shaking the index finger... Even young children will quickly learn the respective gesture from parents and then repeat it openly for one another. Along with this action come verbal accompaniments such as 'You should be ashamed of yourself' or 'Shame on you.'"

"Blaming is an accusation, an action that recruits the affect of anger but directs it in an accusatory manner. ... Blame... activates intolerable shame, shredding dignity and self-respect... In the midst of blame there is no way to keep one's head held high. Permutations of that scene are infinite and equally epidemic in this society. The blaming parent speaks with the voice of the culture itself."

"Contempt by one will activate shame in the other, which is then returned in retaliation. Contempt breeds contempt. Parental expressions of contempt... profoundly shape the family culture into a breeding ground for shame."

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I am stunned. Three reviews of one of the most significant =sociology= and social psychology books ever written... and none of them "get it?" (I know: Anything published in the last century is passe in this one. Including Eric Hoffer's The True Believer; Jules Henry's Culture Against Man and Pathways to Madness; S. E. Asch's Effects of Group Pressure upon the Modification and Distortion of Judgment; Berger & Luckman's The Social Construction of Reality; Trigant Burrow's The Social Basis of Consciousness; Charles Cooley's Human Nature and the Social Order; Stuart Ewen's Captains of Consciousness; Sigmund Freud's Civilization and It's Discontents; Aldous Huxley's Science, Liberty and Peace; Maurice Stein et al's Identity and Anxiety: Survival of the Person in Mass Society; Jiddu Krishnamurti's Education and the Significance of Life; Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority; Milton Rokeach's The Open and Closed Mind; Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile, or On Education; Margaret Thaler Singer, et al's Report of the APA Task Force on Deceptive and Indirect Techniques of Persuasion and Control; Kathleen Taylor's Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control; Wilfred Trotter's Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War; Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism; Charles Tart's Waking Up; Susan Forward's Emotional Blackmail; and Gary Woodward & Robert Denton's Persuasion & Influence in American Life. Read any three of these, and the relevance of Kaufman's masterpiece is self-evident.

TPOS is nothing less than a revelation of the "what is" of a culture of success, pride, achievement and domination built on the manipulation of basic human needs plus conditioned values. Produce. Consume. Defend the wealth accumulated therefrom.

Kaufman had no political axes to grind. He was -- and still is, so far as I know -- a professor of clinical psychology in East Lansing, Michigan. His evident objective was to clarify a common, cultural taboo with explanations built on Sylvan Tompkins's work... as well as to design a course of psychotherapeutic action to transcend that taboo and its crippling effects. In so doing, however, he wrote little less than a de-construction of Western authoritarianism built on the 3,000-year-old Abrahamic moral rules and regulations that organized (and still organize) our culture to this moment. That his 30-year-old book continues to command such a steep price is testimony to its place among the works listed in the paragraph above. Those familiar with =that= work will =not= be disappointed in =this=.
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Joana Kompa
4.0 out of 5 stars Insightful book with some limitations
Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2016
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Kaufman’s forte is not in academics, but as a psychological practitioner. Affect Theory and Script Theory, which serve as Kaufman’s foundation, are fringe concepts, lacking empirical evidence and integration into mainstream theories. Affect Theory is limited to automated (innate, hard-wired) biological responses to environmental stimuli, so it cannot explain more complex emotions associated with self-regulation, social values or cultural differences. However, one can replace and re-frame Script Theory in the light of Bandura’s Social Learning Theory since socio-cultural scripts are handed down, learned and internalized via social practice. For empirical psychologists and those who look for a differentiation between shame and guilt I recommend ‘Shame and Guilt’ by June Tangney and Ronda Dearing instead.
This leads us to the bright side of Kaufman’s book. His descriptions of the internalization of shame are highly insightful as much as his explanations of psycho-therapeutic interventions are useful to practitioners who will find this book to be a true inspiration. Numerous case studies illustrate more than sufficiently the topics at hand. I was wondering at times if the author does not over-generalize the phenomenon of shame. For example, many common psychological problems, such as depression, are not merely rooted in shame conditioning. Giving Kaufman the benefit of the doubt, he does bring his points across powerfully. This is definitely an eye-opening book for practitioners, but to a lesser extent for academics.
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Milka
5.0 out of 5 stars Basics of shame theory
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Kathleen b
5.0 out of 5 stars Education
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Hedgehog
2.0 out of 5 stars Cheaper because the Kindle format doesn't include a proper functioning index section… and too many typographical errors.
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Appalling index. Having seen a colleague's printed copy, and the vast amount of information referenced - with page locations - in the index, I was eager to obtain this book for use on my Kindle. Kindle… an electronic device therefore better than the printed copy, right? No.

The index is simply a list of all the words that appear in the printed version. No page numbers are shown in the index. No hyperlinks to the sections of the book that the index references are included neither. X-Ray is not enabled for this book. Very substandard for a Kindle book.

Chapter headings are provided and one can use the Kindle "search book" feature (highlight a word or phrase and request to search the book).

Some terribly scanning errors too - this seems mechanically OCR'd into Kindle format, rather than converted digitally from an original source.

So, if you're purchasing this book to read from cover to cover, and can tolerate unnecessary typographical errors, then saving yourself £20+ for the Kindle edition might suit you well.

If, however, you're purchasing this book to gain aspects of particular areas of this psychology (like I was: Affect Regulation) then this sub-par Kindle edition will make your research very difficult; buy the printed version instead.
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Hedgehog
2.0 out of 5 stars Cheaper because the Kindle format doesn't include a proper functioning index section… and too many typographical errors.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 13, 2015
Appalling index. Having seen a colleague's printed copy, and the vast amount of information referenced - with page locations - in the index, I was eager to obtain this book for use on my Kindle. Kindle… an electronic device therefore better than the printed copy, right? No.

The index is simply a list of all the words that appear in the printed version. No page numbers are shown in the index. No hyperlinks to the sections of the book that the index references are included neither. X-Ray is not enabled for this book. Very substandard for a Kindle book.

Chapter headings are provided and one can use the Kindle "search book" feature (highlight a word or phrase and request to search the book).

Some terribly scanning errors too - this seems mechanically OCR'd into Kindle format, rather than converted digitally from an original source.

So, if you're purchasing this book to read from cover to cover, and can tolerate unnecessary typographical errors, then saving yourself £20+ for the Kindle edition might suit you well.

If, however, you're purchasing this book to gain aspects of particular areas of this psychology (like I was: Affect Regulation) then this sub-par Kindle edition will make your research very difficult; buy the printed version instead.
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Jennifer Wilders
4.0 out of 5 stars Shame - a liitle understood injury
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 8, 2013
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A must read for survivors of any form of abuse and a revealing contribution to the deep damage caused. More therapists need to understand this aspect as without it clients who suffer this legacy cannot be supported effectively. I learnt a lot on a topic I thought I had already grasped well.
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