Shame and guilt in neurosis

Bibliography: p. 514-525.. Responsibility by Helen B. Lewis.

Foreword - H.A. Witkin. Preface. 1 Shame and guilt in neurosis. 2 Toward a working concept of the psychology of shame and guilt. 3 The self-concept. 4 The differentiation construct. 5 An experimental investigation into patients' proneness to shame or guilt. 6 The phenomenology of shame. 7 Thephenomenology of by-passed shame. 8 The phenomenology of guilt. 9 Sequences from overt unidentified shame. 10 Sequences from by-passed shame and guilt. 11 Shame in the transference. 12 Shame and the formation of symptoms: a review of Freud's case material. 13 Case studies. 14 Summary and suggestions for further study

'...has opened up three new lines of investigation into relatively neglected areas. The first line of exploration is an inquiry into the phenomenology of shame and guilt, and the relationship between these two undischarged feeling-states and neurotic symptoms. The second line of exploration is into the relationship between perceptual style and proneness to shame or guilt. The third direction of study leads the reader to consider the implications for therapeutic technique resulting from a focus on the experiential aspects of shame and guilt.'

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