The Value of Shame

Elisabeth Vanderheiden, pedagogue, theologian, mediator, managing director of the Catholic Adult Education Rhineland-Palatinate and the federal chairman of the Catholic Adult Education Germany. She has published articles in the context of vocational qualifications, in particular qualification of teachers and trainers, as well as current topics of general, vocational and civic education and intercultural opening processes. Claude-Hélène Mayer is an adjunct professor at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, and a Senior Research Associate at the Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. She has published several monographs, text collections, journal articles and special issues on mental health and well-being, conflict management and mediation in transcultural contexts, health-related and well-being and women in leadership.

Chapter 1. An Introduction to the Value of Shame: Exploring a Health Resource Across Cultures (Vanderheiden).- Part I. Theoretical Perspectives on Shame and Culture.- Chapter 2. Shame! A System Psychodynamic Perspective (May).- Chapter 3. Shame as a Functional and Adaptive Emotion: A Bio-psycho-social Perspective (Van Alphen).- Chapter 4. The Positive Function of Shame: Moral and Spiritual Perspectives (Ryan).- Part II. Culture-specific Perspectives on Shame.- Chapter 5. lajjA in Indian Psychology: Spiritual, Social, and Literary Perspectives on Shame (Bhawuk).- Chapter 6. Shame in South African Work Places (Mayer).- Chapter 7. Canada/North America: Shame Between Indigenous Nature-connectedness, Colonialism and Cultural Disconnection (Buch).- Chapter 8. Indigenous Australians: Shame and Respect (Louth).- Chapter 9. Shame and Resilience: A New Zealand Based Exploration of Resilient Responses to Shame (Brennan).- Chapter 10. From Shame to Guilt: The Remediation of Bullying Across Cultures in the US (Merkin).- Part III. The Application of Shame and Culture in Therapeutic and Counseling Practices.- Chapter 11. Shame and Psychotherapy: Theory, Method and Practice (Sinha).

"This book makes an extraordinary contribution to social sciences as it highlights the positive side of shame as a health resource; therefore, it is highly recommended to educators at all levels, interculturalists, sociologists, those who work with refugees and migration, as well as psychologists and psychiatrists." (Kiyoko Sueda, Journal of Intercultural Communication, Issue 21, 2018)

"'The aim of this book is to synthesize empirical research-based and theoretical perspectives on shame in various cultural contexts' ... . This book shows us how we can transcend the divide between the pathological side and the positive side for shame. That is why I highly recommend this landmark publication toboth PP researchers and clinicians." (Paul T. P. Wong, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 62 (34), August, 2017)