How do we feel when our friend turns up with a holiday present and we have nothing ready to give in exchange? What lies behind our small social panics and the maneuvers we use, to avoid losing face? Recognizing how much we care about how others see us, this wise and witty book t…
"The willingness to betray one's country, one's people, one's family--to commit treason and foreswear loyalty to one entity by giving it to another--is a difficult concept for many people to comprehend. Yet, societies have grappled with treason for centuries; the motivations, im…
"The willingness to betray one's country, one's people, one's family--to commit treason and foreswear loyalty to one entity by giving it to another--is a difficult concept for many people to comprehend. Yet, societies have grappled with treason for centuries; the motivations, im…
Introduction: The shameful business of betrayal and treason / Larissa Tracy -- Wiglaf's sword : the coming of the state / Frank Battaglia -- In sickness and in health : the Boethian narrative of the two Geralds of Brecon / Sarah J. Sprouse -- Treasonous and dishonorable conduct …
The willingness to betray one's country, one's people, one's family--to commit treason and foreswear loyalty to one entity by giving it to another--is a difficult concept for many people to comprehend. Yet, societies have grappled with treason for centuries; the motivations, imp…
"The willingness to betray one's country, one's people, one's family--to commit treason and foreswear loyalty to one entity by giving it to another--is a difficult concept for many people to comprehend. Yet, societies have grappled with treason for centuries; the motivations, im…
"The willingness to betray one's country, one's people, one's family--to commit treason and foreswear loyalty to one entity by giving it to another--is a difficult concept for many people to comprehend. Yet, societies have grappled with treason for centuries; the motivations, im…
Despite the burgeoning literature on the role of the father in child development and on fathering as a developmental stage, surprisingly little has been written about the psychiatrically impaired father. In Fathers Who Fail: Shame and Psychopathology in the Family System, Melvin…
Despite the burgeoning literature on the role of the father in child development and on fathering as a developmental stage, surprisingly little has been written about the psychiatrically impaired father. In Fathers Who Fail: Shame and Psychopathology in the Family System, Melvin…
Food insecurity (FI) among college students is a relatively new area of study that has revealed alarming rates of FI on four-year campuses. Most current scholarship on food insecure college students (FICS) measures the extent of the problem with scant attention paid to the lived…
Moral injury (MI) has been associated with various psycho-social issues, including guilt, shame, loss of trust, social disconnectedness and isolation, loss of meaning and purpose, difficulty forgiving, negative self-esteem, and spiritual matters. These issues can facilitate adve…
Research shows that shame can account for significant variance in depression (Tangney, et al., 1992; Wei, et al., 2005; Ding, et al., 2012; Rice, et al., 2016), making the connection between the two factors a point of psychological interest. While the relationship between depres…
Narcissism as a construct has a robust clinical history rooted in psychoanalytic theory. A widely accepted perspective on the etiology of narcissism, based in psychoanalytic theory, postulates that narcissism is deep-seated in feelings of shame. The relationship of shame to atta…
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a prevalent occurrence that includes stalking and physical, psychological, and sexual abuse (CDC, 2018). The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) estimates that “1 in 4 women” and in “1 in 10 men” have been impacted by I…
My dissertation explores the ethics of shame and honor at the end of the Republic to offer new perspectives on Tibullus’ work and Roman elegy. By situating Tibullus’ corpus within his contemporaries’ aristocratic discourse on honor, my research argues that the elegiac narrator i…
Objective: The current study examined prospective relationships between religious affiliation, feelings of guilt and shame, ethical orientation (relativism and idealism), alcohol consumption and quantity of heavy episodic drinking. Participants: Three hundred and seventy-one stu…
Guardedness is the plague of the International Church; guardedness rooted in shame is a prevailing cause of spiritual disease. Shame is universal in human existence, encouraging secrecy, isolation, and pretense—antitheses of authentic relationships. Bestselling authors like Bren…