idiosyncratic affect labels

• Introducing Shame Language to Clients by Brett Schur - Havertown, PA - bschur@msn.com, 3/12/96
  
  

Well done! It doesn't matter what you call an affect as long as you focus the patient on the experience so it can be studied by that person in order to group or lump all the related experiences into scripts. Herman is fine.

By the way---exactly the same observations may be made about any affect! Many people are just as surprised to think that anger is the result of steady-state higher-than-optimal levels of stimulation, and define "real" anger as something else. It would be useful to use Herman for any high density situation; we could set up lots of Hermans for people.

What you describe is exactly why Vick Kelly and I have been so excited about the study group process. No matter what form of therapy emanates from an individual's core of talents (and it is different for each of us) a good understanding of affect/script theory makes you better at what you're already good at. Thanks, Brett.

• Shame: A Family of Emotions by Vick Kelly, 3/13/96
  • Nakedness and Shame by Jan Braswell, 1/15/97
    • exposure by Don Nathanson, 1/15/97
      • Thanks so much by Jan Braswell, 1/16/97
      • SITUATIONAL SHAME by Phil Feldman, PhD, 3/3/98
        • clear situations generate heathly shame by Cameron fritsch ,student, 8/25/98
• Crisis by BLynch, 3/4/98