It isn't just shame

• Reintegrative shaming praised by Rich Kuyper, 1/30/97
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    • A systems approach to shame and abuse by Rich Kuyper, 2/3/97
      
      

The problem is much deeper than our understanding of shame and shaming interactions. Our culture does not have an adequate language for the entire spectrum of affective life, and my real goal is to teach the concept of innate affect and the affect system in elementary school. If our adult patients are capable of making tremendous changes in their lives simply by learning that we are built with nine innate affect mechanisms that are responsible for all of our emotional and most of our intellectual experience, then I believe that a great fraction of our problems might be avoided were children to learn this early in their development.

And the next generation of psychotherapists would have to deal with an entirely new bunch of problems created in that cohort. Isn't that a neat hope?

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