exposure

• Introducing Shame Language to Clients by Brett Schur - Havertown, PA - bschur@msn.com, 3/12/96
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    • Nakedness and Shame by Jan Braswell, 1/15/97
      
      

In his now-classic book "The Mask of Shame," Wurmser commented that we are all ashamed to be seen naked unless held under the spell of fascination; I've added that the protection of love makes people perhaps even more safe. In writing "Shame and Pride: Affect, Sex, and the Birth of the Self," I set out to explain every aspect of shame and realized that since Freud had taken for granted that shame was at core related to sexuality, and that any wish to be seen naked was without question a matter of sexual exhibitionism, I knew I had to deal at length with the relation between sex and shame in order to handle the relation between exposure and shame. The result was that I had to develop an entirely new way of explaining human sexuality in order to free it from an obligatory relation to shame. Then I was able to explain the historical aspects of bodily exposure and free it from the obligatory constraints of shame. I suspect you and your cohort might enjoy that book.

• 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