Orit Badouk Epstein is an attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist, supervisor, teacher and member of The Bowlby Centre, London. She is also the editor of Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis and co-edited Terror Within and Without. Attachment and Disintegration: Clinical Work on the Edge (Routledge, 2013).

Foreword

Elizabeth Howell

Introduction

Orit Badouk-Epstein

1. Shame as a Behavioural System: Links to Attachment, Defence, and Dysregulation

Judith Solomon

2. Caring for the Human Spirit in Pride and Shame: A Moral Conscience Seeking Kindness from Birth

Colwyn Trevarthen

3. Primary Shame and the Economy of Affects

Orit Badouk Epstein

4. Attackments: Subjugation, Shame, and the Attachment to Painful Affects and Objects

Richard A. Chefetz

5. Shame and Black Identity Wounding: The Legacy of Internalised Oppression

Aileen Alleyne

6. Mentalizing Shame, Shamelessness, and Fremdscham (Shame by Proxy) in Groups

Ulrich Schultz-Venrath

7. The Aggressor Within: Attachment Trauma, Segregated Systems, and the Double Face of Shame

Adriano Schimmenti

8. Personal and Professional Reflections: Shame and Race

Elaine Arnold

9. Suicide Addict: The Sovereignty of Shame in the Dissociated Mind

Orit Badouk Epstein