The Value of Shame Exploring a Health Resource in Cultural Contexts
This volume combines empirical research-based and theoretical perspectives on shame in cultural contexts and from socio-culturally different perspectives, providing new insights and a more comprehensive cultural base for contemporary research and practice
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The Value of Shame Exploring a Health Resource in Cultural Contexts
The Value of Shame
Elisabeth Vanderheiden Claude-Hélène Mayer •
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Editors Elisabeth Vanderheiden Katholische Erwachsenenbildung Mainz Germany
Claude-Hélène Mayer Institut für therapeutische Kommunikation und Sprachgebrauch European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) Germany and Department of Management Rhodes University Grahamstown South Africa
ISBN 978-3-319-53099-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-53100-7
ISBN 978-3-319-53100-7
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Foreword
A Cultural Perspective on Shame In times when books promise their readers that they can overcome shame once and for all (Allyn 2004; Nelson 2016) and when shame has all but disappeared from (American) public discourse (Cohen 2003), it is time to stop and reconsider if we may have thrown the baby out with the bath water. Why is shame feared and dismissed in some parts of the world? How do other parts of the world feel about shame? Is it even justified to speak of one shame or are people actually engaging in many “shames”? And have potential benefits of shame for both individual and social well-being been overlooked? At their core, shameful feelings involve a negative evaluation of the self and signal outcomes that are incongruent with identity goals (Mascolo and Fischer 1995; Tangney 1991; Tracy and Robins 2008). Shame acknowledges the importance of other people’s norms and expectations, highlights a person’s own shortcomi
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