A Conversation with Donald Nathanson
March 18, 2000 by Gil Levin   
 Filed under Conversations
BOL: Don, you first became prominent in our field by describing the phenomenon of shame. What is there about shame that makes it important and why did you choose to investigate it?” NATHANSON: For some years I had been occupied with the problem of what is now called “interaffectivity,” the way each of us gets […]

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