The Bright Side of Shame

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxiii

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2. Transforming Shame in Cultural Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Opening the Black Box Part 1: On Collective Shame in the German Society

      • Claude-Hélène Mayer

      Pages 3-19

   3. Opening the Black Box Part 2: Exploring Individual Shame in German Research

      • Claude-Hélène Mayer

      Pages 21-33

   4. lajjA: Learning, Unlearning and Relearning

      • Dharm P. S. Bhawuk

      Pages 35-49

   5. Shame as a Health Resource for the Repatriation Training of Japanese Returnees (kikokushijo) in Japan

      • Kiyoko Sueda

      Pages 51-66

   6. The Effect of Regulation on Shame in Adolescence in China

      • Liusheng Wang, Biao Sang

      Pages 67-75

   7. From ‘Death Sentence to Hope’, HIV and AIDS in South Africa: Transforming Shame in Context

      • Busisiwe Nkosi, Paul C. Rosenblatt

      Pages 77-87

   8. “The Group Is that Who Protects You in the Face of Shame”: Self-change and Community Theater Participation in an Argentine Agro-City

      • Johana Kunin

      Pages 89-99

3. Transforming Shame in Society

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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   2. A Sociocultural Exploration of Shame and Trauma Among Refugee Victims of Torture

      • Gail Womersley

      Pages 103-116

   3. Crime and Shame: Reflections and Culture-Specific Insights

      • Claude-Hélène Mayer

      Pages 117-129

   4. Shame at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Possible Experiences in a Consumer Culture Context

      • Leona Ungerer

      Pages 131-145

4. Working with Shame and Gender

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147

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   2. Reconstructing Gender to Transcend Shame: Embracing Human Functionality to Enable Agentic and Desexualised Bodies

      • Sergio A. Silverio

      Pages 149-165

   3. Interventions for Shame and Guilt Experienced by Battered Women

      • Kathryn A. Nel, Sarawathie Govender

      Pages 167-183

5. Managing Shame in Spiritual and Religious Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185

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   2. Transforming Shame: Strategies in Spirituality and Prayer

      • Thomas Ryan

      Pages 187-198

   3. Shame Transformation Using an Islamic Psycho-Spiritual Approach for Malay Muslims Recovering from Substance Dependence

      • Dini Farhana Baharudin, Melati Sumari, Suhailiza Md. Hamdani

      Pages 199-214

6. Transforming Shame in Organisational Contexts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215

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This book provides new ideas on how to work with and constructively transform shame on a theoretical and practical level, and in various socio-cultural contexts and professions. It provides practical guidelines on dealing with shame on the basis of reflection, counselling models, exercises, simulations, specific psychotherapeutic approaches, and auto-didactical learning material, so as to transform shame from a negatively experienced emotion into a mental health resource. The book challenges theorists to adopt an interdisciplinary stance and to think “outside the box.” Further, it provides practitioners, such as coaches, counsellors, therapists, trainers and medical personnel, with practical tools for transforming negative experiences and emotions. In brief, the book shows practitioners how to unlock the growth potential of individuals, teams, and organisations, allowing them to develop constructively and positively.

• Shame as Health Resource
• Shame in Cultural Context
• Cultivating lajjA for Self-Realization
• Shame in Adolescence in China
• Shame and HIV/AIDS in South Africa
• Transforming Shame in Organisational and Professional Contexts
• Managing Shame in Organisations
• Motivational Interviewing Techniques in Coaching
• Shame and Anxiety
• Unemployment and Managing Shame
• Shame in a Medical Context
• Shame in Multicultural Educational Contexts
• Shame and Gender
• Shame and Ego-State Therapy
• Dealing with Shame

• Institut für Therapeutische Kommunikation und Sprachgebrauch, Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

  Claude-Hélène Mayer

• Katholische Erwachsenenbildung Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz, Germany

  Elisabeth Vanderheiden

Claude-Hélène Mayer is an Adjunct Professor at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, and a Senior Research Associate at the Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. She has published several monographs, text collections, journal articles and special issues on transcultural mental health and well-being, conflict management and mediation in transcultural contexts, women in leadership, and psychobiography. 

Elisabeth Vanderheiden is a pedagogue, theologian, mediator, Managing Director of Catholic Adult Education Rhineland-Palatinate, and Federal Chairperson of Catholic Adult Education Germany. She has published numerous articles on vocational qualification, in particular for teachers and trainers, as well as current topics in general, vocational and civic education and intercultural opening processes.

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