Phenomenon Of Shame Research Articles

Social shaming and bullying of mental health staff by patients: A survey in a mental health centre.

INTRODUCTION: Social shaming can impair caregivers' performance. The prevalence of shaming experienced by mental health workers and the relationships to their function or burnout is unknown. To examine the associations between exposure to social shaming and bullying by patients, the risk appraisal of negative impact of this behaviour, burnout, professional functioning and intention to leave among mental health workers. In this cross-sectional study, 122 workers from a psychiatric hospital completed a questionnaire. Participants reported exposure to social shaming and bullying by patients on a regular basis. Shaming and bullying were significantly associated with lower professional functioning and higher intention to leave, while burnout may at least partially mediate the association between these variables. The phenomenon of shaming and bullying of mental health workers by patients is common and is associated with lower functioning and higher burnout, which have a negative impact on the patient-caregiver interaction. There is a need to establish a policy for early detection of shaming of mental health workers in order to prevent burnout or intention to leave. Evidence based interventions, such as the Safewards model, accompanied by assessment of their effectiveness, may help in this effort.

Shame in Teaching-Learning: A Humanbecoming Perspective.

In a discussion on the phenomenon of shame, intriguing questions are raised for consideration by teachers of nursing. Raising concerns about the perceived emergence of societal norms that seem to encourage the shaming of others along with technology and social media platforms that enable public shaming brings one to ponder the meaning of shame in the sciencing and art of teaching-learning in nursing, especially in an era of virtual learning. From the unique perspective of humanbecoming, reflections on selected stories of the student experience of shame give rise to several suggestions for faculty to be with students in moving beyond moments of potential shame in the unfolding of new possibilities. These stories and suggestions are offered to nurse faculty and academic administrators for continuing discussion and as an opportunity for shared learning.

Shame as Obstacle or Opportunity? Pastoral Theologies of Shame

ABSTRACT Within the contemporary theological world, pastoral theology is unique in offering a considerable variety of theological reflections on the phenomenon of shame. Pastoral theologians have called for the development of a theology that can be as liberating for those who suffer from shame as the theology of divine forgiveness has been for those who suffer from guilt. But their theological recommendations point in two directions: Is shame an obstacle to be removed, or (also) an opportunity to be embraced? This article offers a systematic overview of this growing area of research.

Shame and the Dilemma of Human Destructiveness

This article examines the phenomenon of shame and related states from clinical and theoretical perspectives within Bioenergetic Analysis. Links are made to the general problem of human destructiveness and to the specific ways that shame is used destructively in relationships and families. The author’s personal struggle is used to illuminate one approach to living the reality of destructive shame.

The Difference of Feminist Philosophy: The Case of Shame

This essay is written in two parts. The first is a commentary on the affective politics of philosophy as a discipline. The theme here is philosophy’s reverence problem, an affective bond to the teacher and the text, which is threatened or even injured by feminist philosophy. Feminist philosophy emerges as disruptive irreverence in the midst of the discipline, and injured reverence becomes a powerful prereflective motivation for resistance to feminist thought. The second part of the essay is an exploration of the field of inquiry called feminist phenomenology. Is feminist phenomenology simply phenomenology from another point of view, that of the embodied female subject? Is it conducted, in other words, in a space beyond politics and power where the difference of this subject discloses values and meanings that have not yet been thematized in phenomenological inquiry, but which phenomenology is already competent to pursue? Or does feminist phenomenology disrupt or transform phenomenological practice as we traditionally understand it? In this paper, I claim that phenomenology must be critical in order to be feminist, that it must disrupt phenomenological practice rather than simply “applying” it to a new object, “woman.” In the work of Simone de Beauvoir we find a different phenomenological practice that feminists can count as a positive inheritance. The real difference of feminist phenomenology, however, only emerges in the practice itself. In order to capture something about this difference I take the phenomenon of shame as a case study, and compare three recent phenomenological accounts of shame.

The Difference of Feminist Philosophy: The Case of Shame

This essay is written in two parts. The first is a commentary on the affective politics of philosophy as a discipline. The theme here is philosophy’s reverence problem, an affective bond to the teacher and the text, which is threatened or even injured by feminist philosophy. Feminist philosophy emerges as disruptive irreverence in the midst of the discipline, and injured reverence becomes a powerful prereflective motivation for resistance to feminist thought. The second part of the essay is an exploration of the field of inquiry called feminist phenomenology. Is feminist phenomenology simply phenomenology from another point of view, that of the embodied female subject? Is it conducted, in other words, in a space beyond politics and power where the difference of this subject discloses values and meanings that have not yet been thematized in phenomenological inquiry, but which phenomenology is already competent to pursue? Or does feminist phenomenology disrupt or transform phenomenological practice as we traditionally understand it? In this paper, I claim that phenomenology must be critical in order to be feminist, that it must disrupt phenomenological practice rather than simply “applying” it to a new object, “woman.” In the work of Simone de Beauvoir we find a different phenomenological practice that feminists can count as a positive inheritance. The real difference of feminist phenomenology, however, only emerges in the practice itself. In order to capture something about this difference I take the phenomenon of shame as a case study, and compare three recent phenomenological accounts of shame.

Introduction: The role of shame in psychoanalytic theory and practice

Translations of summaryIntroducing three papers by Leon Wurmser, Claude Janin and John Steiner the author gives an overview of the development of the concept of shame in psychoanalytic theory and practice. Different aspects of the phenomenon of shame are being discussed including its relation to guilt, object relations and identity as well as the role of gaze when emerging from a psychic retreat.

What Age Is Shame?

The author ponders the various meanings of growing older in the gay male community, focusing on the phenomenon of shame and its intergenerational origins.

‘To be ashamed.’ On the meaning and theological fruit of a phenomenology of negative self-awareness

Over the course of this presentation, I will simply work through each of the elements of my title. I will first explain what phenomenology is. Then I will make some phenomenological remarks about shame – that is the longest section. Then I will have a brief summary of what was achieved, in which I will present a thesis – or better, a generalizing supposition – regarding what one experiences about human self-awareness in the phenomenon of shame. Then, finally, I will turn to the theological fruit.

The Drama of Shame

This paper gives an account of three training workshops using dramatherapy techniques and subsequent conversations with participants on the phenomenon of shame. It gives an overview of shame from a psychological, socio-cultural, psychotherapeutic and dramatherapeutic perspective before giving a reflective account of the workshop experience. Although not intended to be a piece of formal research, our journey was rooted in a phenomenological enquiry: exploring the group's subjective experience and the meaning we create from this. The authors premise is that shame is experienced when early relationships are disrupted and become mis-attuned and that dramatherapy has a unique role to play in the exploration and recovery from the shame-based experience.

Crystal Methamphetamine, Body Dysmorphia, and Shame: A Psychodynamic Case Report from the Trainee Perspective

Shame is an affect common to many pathological as well as nonpathological states. It is rarely described in academic psychiatry, and the reasons are probably more sociocultural than physiologic or scientific. Whether identified as shame or termed something else altogether, it is often the target of effective therapies addressing anxiety, depression, substance abuse, personality conflicts, and even delusions. It is particularly common within lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations given the difficulties of confronting and accepting the self. Using a clinical case experienced by a psychiatry resident trainee as a framework, this paper explores the phenomenon of shame as a common pathway to several psychiatric diagnoses within the same patient. Psychodynamic aspects of the patient's relationships with family members, his interactions with the resident, and the resident's countertransferential reactions are explored as well.

Genesis 3: Sin, Shame and Self-Esteem

In a study based on his recent book Missing the Mark: Sin and Its Consequences in Biblical Theology, Mark Biddle explores the story of Genesis 3 and concludes that the church must reaffirm the Good News that God created a good world and that God values authentic humanity enough to create it and affirms it in the incarnation. The phenomenon of shame, as old as Adam and Eve, and the cult of self-esteem, founded by the serpent, both now rampant in our culture, indicate that members of our society acutely feel the effects of their sin.

Book Review: Shame: Theory, Therapy, Theology

Extracted from text ... 511 Title: Shame: Theory, therapy, theology. Author: S. Pattison Year: 2000 Publisher: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 0521568633 (paperback, 354 pages) As the title indicates, the phenomenon of shame is explored in this book in terms of theory (the different interpretations and understandings of the concept of shame in literature, psychology, philosophy, history and sociology), therapy (ways in which individuals and groups may be helped to deal with chronic, dysfunctional shame), and theology (the relationship between Christian ideology and practice and human experiences of shame). The book is an exhaustive exploration of shame within these three areas from the moving ..