Whose shame is it anyway?: Lifeworlds of humiliation and systems of restoration (or “the analyst’s shame”)

Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 83-100

  Orange, Donna M ^a,b  

^a Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity   (United States)

^b Institute for Specialization in Self Psychology and Relational Psychoanalysis   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blame; Emotion; Humiliation; Intersubjective; Shame; System; Vulnerable

Indexed keywords

EID: 38549098686     PISSN: 00107530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2008.10745952     Document Type: Article

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