Welcome to the BOL Forum on Shame and Affect Theory

Welcome to the Behavior OnLine Forum on Shame and Affect Theory

I look forward to your contributions to this topic. As background you may want to read the very 'meaty' Behavior OnLine Conversation with Donald Nathanson. Don has found in the work of the late Silvan Tomkins a theory of personality with radical implications for psychotherapy practice. The Conversation spells this out in some depth and detail. However, affect theory requires us to think about the nature of emotion and about therapy in an unfamiliar way and requires more than one exposure to the material to appreciate it fully. At least this was so in my case. That is why I am so glad that Don will be an active participant and leader in this discussion. I will be here too as will Gil Levin, Behavior OnLine's Editor and Publisher. Questions about using the forum software are best addressed to me on the General Forum.

I am glad you found your way here and I look forward to our discussion.

With my best regards,
John Grohol
Associate Editor
Behavior OnLine

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• A Family of Emotions and a Family of Psychotherapists by Don Nathanson, 1/2/96
  • Don's Theory of ADD/ADHD and Shame by Jennifer Morley, 4/16/96
    • Responses to Shame by Jim Pfrommer, 4/16/96
      • Treatment of ADD by Jennifer Morley, 4/17/96
        • hyperactivity as shame by donald klein, 7/1/96
          • Good Question by Gil Levin, 7/1/96
          • Klein's definition of shame? by Don Nathanson, 7/2/96
          • Movement Disorder? by Fiona Geiser, 7/3/96
          • Dr. Klein--Please Study Affect Theory by Vick Kelly, 7/4/96
          • response to aad/adhd and shame by mike fabiani, 10/27/98
            • Primary and secondary sources of shame affect by Don Nathanson, 10/31/98
          • response to add/adhd and shame by mike fabiani, 10/27/98
      • Bipolar Disease Related to Shame? by Kris Evans, 7/26/96
        • Bipolar Affective Illness and Shame by Don Nathanson, 7/26/96
          • Bipolar Illness and Capacity for Intimacy by Vick Kelly, 8/4/96
            • Good Readings on Affect Theory by Jan Halper, Ph.D., 8/27/97
              • Readings on Affect Theory and on Couples Therapy by Don Nathanson, 8/27/97
            • I Want MY LIFE BACK...! by Greg Alexander, 10/6/98
              • Help is on the way! by Don Nathanson, 10/7/98
                • 1 reply
            • Bipolar I Cure Rate? by Anna Kay, 1/10/99
              • Cure? by Don Nathanson, 1/11/99
          • Yes of course shame is integral with BiPolar by Karen, 10/2/97
            • Can you share more with us? by Don Nathanson, 10/3/97
        • Thank you for the quick Bipolar reply! by Kris Evans, 7/28/96
          • Affective learning after pharmacotherapy by Don Nathanson, 7/28/96
            • Hypnosis and Mood Disorders by Peter B. Bloom, 8/3/96
            • new script creation what is it? to Nathanson by ginni...fan of Nathanson, 7/11/98
              • Goals and Methods of Therapy by Don Nathanson, 7/19/98
      • SSRI'S AND DOWNMODULATION OF SHAME by JOHN HASSLER, 4/14/97
        • Downregulation of shame affect by Don Nathanson, 4/17/97
          • (No title) by John Hassler, 4/18/97
          • Adaptive value of shame mechanism? by Dori LeCroy, 1/23/98
            • Adaptive value of an affect by Don Nathanson, 1/24/98
              • Guilt vs. shame? by Anna Kay, 1/10/99
      • ADD shame by R. N. SMITH, 4/23/98
        • others like you by christina l. remien, 4/24/98
          • others like you by stacey, 6/1/98
            • Some Make It, Some Don't by Greg Alexander, 10/6/98
      • Responses to public humiliation by Lia Ades, 12/8/98
        • Life as interacting matrices rather than billiard balls by Don Nathanson, 12/13/98
          • Shame links identity and social interaction by Lia Ades, 1/21/99
    • Any problem with attention is a problem with affect! by Don Nathanson, 4/16/96
      • Wondering why ? by Michèle Paquette, 4/17/96
        • Amplified to Attention by Jim Pfrommer, 4/18/96
          • Thank you by Michèle Paquette, 4/18/96
        • Who's upset by Jim Pfrommer, 4/18/96
          • A difficult issueAndy Morrison by Michèle Paquette, 4/18/96
            • New theories upset old certainties by Don Nathanson, 4/18/96
              • In all new there is some old! by Michèle Paquette, 4/19/96
                • 1 reply
              • doctoral research on shame by Mary Byrley <byrley@ix.netcom.com>, 4/28/96
                • 1 reply
            • Apparently a clean win by Don Nathanson, 6/6/96
              • less expressive therapists by linda, 6/7/96
                • 2 replies
              • Learning by HMBll, 5/17/97
                • 2 replies
        • Why? by Amanda, 9/27/97
          • For example? by Don Nathanson, 9/28/97
      • Affects and Neuroimaging by Jim Pfrommer, 4/21/96
        • Mood Neuroimaging Study by Fiona Geiser, 4/23/96
    • Response to J. Morley's comments RE: Don's Theory of ADD/ADHD by Gordon Shannon, 1/23/98
      • Primary and secondary shame by Don Nathanson, 1/24/98
        • re Don's response:Primary and secondary by Gordon Shannon, 7/13/98
          • Primary and secondary manifestations of ADD by Don Nathanson, 7/19/98
            • Secondary as trigger for primary by (No author), 9/22/98
              • affects are analogues of their stimulus conditions by Don Nathanson, 9/23/98
• We've been busy building the Case Conference by Don Nathanson, 6/22/96
  • Looking forward to case conference by Peter B. Bloom, M.D., 6/22/96
  • The Case of Otto Freund has begun! by Gil Levin, 6/26/96
• Shame, guilt. by coronet@ksu.ksu.edu, 8/8/96
  • The concept of innate affect by Don Nathanson, 8/9/96