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The mask of shame / Leon Wurmser.

By: Wurmser, Leon.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Northvale, N.J. : J. Aronson, 1994Description: xxvi, 345 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 1568214065.Subject(s): Shame | Psychoanalysis | PsychotherapyDDC classification: 152.4
Contents:
Introduction -- Shame, the veiled companion of narcissism -- Phenomenology study of shame -- The adaptive function of shame -- The structure of shame -- Unlovability and the magic eye -- Archaic forms of shame: clinical observations -- Drives for magical perception and expression -- Constructions: the genesis of shame -- Disguises -- The compromise character of estrangement -- Schizophrenic mystification as defense and wish fulfillment -- Shamelessness -- Inferences for psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic technique -- The heroic transcendence of shame.
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General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 152.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Checked out 05/03/2026 00009952
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Store 152.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00009961
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Bibliography: (page 327) and index.

Introduction -- Shame, the veiled companion of narcissism -- Phenomenology study of shame -- The adaptive function of shame -- The structure of shame -- Unlovability and the magic eye -- Archaic forms of shame: clinical observations -- Drives for magical perception and expression -- Constructions: the genesis of shame -- Disguises -- The compromise character of estrangement -- Schizophrenic mystification as defense and wish fulfillment -- Shamelessness -- Inferences for psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic technique -- The heroic transcendence of shame.