As Psychology Today launches this new blog on the subject of shame, I'm in the midst of my background research on the origins of shame for my next book. While I've been addressing the role of shame ...

Trauma is not only a disorder of fear but of shame, Harvard University trauma researcher and psychiatrist Judith Herman told me when discussing her new book, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors ...

Shame is a deeply complex yet ultimately very common emotion to have. The American Psychological Association’s definition of shame states that it’s a “Highly unpleasant self-conscious emotion” that’s ...