Melvin R. Lansky - 2014

HOWARD A. BACAL, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalyst and at the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute. He is also a Supervising Analyst at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York City.

MICHAEL J. BADER, D.M.H. is a member of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and a Contributing Editor for Tikkun Magazine.

FRANCIS BROUCEK, M.D. is a member of the teaching Faculty, The Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis and the Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute. He has been in the private practice of psychiatry in the Kansans City area since 1979.

KAREN HANSON, Ph.D. is Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University.

JACK KATZ, J.D., Ph.D. is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is currently completing Mundane Metamorphoses: Emotions in the Practice of Everyday Life.

BENJAMIN KILBORNE, Ph.D., previously on the faculties of the Sorbonne and the University of California, San Diego and Los Angeles, is currently on the faculties of the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute, the Southern Californian Psychoanalytic Institute, and the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies, where he is also a Training and Supervising Analyst.

MELVIN R. LANSKY, M.D. (Editor) is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California.

AARON LAZARE, M.D. is Chancellor, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, and Dean and Professor of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School.

ROBERT MICHELS, M.D. is Walsh McDermott Professor of Medicine University Professor of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College, and Training and Supervising Analyst, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

ANDREW P. MORRISON, M.D. (Editor) is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is on the faculties of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis.

CAROL A. MUNSCHAUER, Ph.D. is Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine. She is also a member of the Eastern Regional Division of the International Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology.

DONALD L. NATHANSON, M.D. is Executive Director of The Silvan S. Tomkins Institute and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA.

SUZANNE M. RETZINGER, Ph.D. is a Mediator and Family Evaluator in the Ventura (CA) Superior Court. She is author of A New Look at Countertransference: Shame and the Social Bond, soon to be published.

THOMAS SCHEFF, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the author of Emotions, Social Bonds, and Human Reality: Part/Whole Analysis.

ROBERT D. SIOLOROW, Ph.D. is Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles; Faculty, Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine.

LEON WURMSER, M.D. is Training and Supervising Analyst, New York Freudian Society, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University West Virginia, Charleston.

Why another book on shame? A significant number of first-rate contributions to the study of shame have appeared since the rediscovery of and expanded attention to shame began in 1971. Prior to that time, psychoanalytic interest in shame was marginal and fragmentary compared with the central position it had occupied in the very earliest psychoanalytic writings.

The year 1971 saw the publication of two major works that ushered in an era of psychoanalytic attention to shame and an explosion of investigation and writing on the subject. In that year, Helen Block Lewis's Shame and Guilt in Neurosis and Heinz Kohut's The Analysis of the Self were published. Lewis's work, combining sophisticated research methodology and nuanced therapeutic investigation, convincingly demonstrated the relationship of anger and impasse in the therapeutic situation to antecedent shame experiences that had not been acknowledged by either therapist or patient. Kohut's studies of lack of self cohesion and selfobject transferences in the narcissistic personality disorders not only ushered in the self psychology movement but also enhanced psychoanalytic understanding of affect in relation to self and that other used for the purpose of solidifying the sense of self. Shame, a major accompaniment to disorders of personality cohesion, came into sharp focus and increased prominence and remained an affect of major importance not only to those committed to self-psychology but also to mainstream psychoanalysts who acquired new-found appreciation of the nuances of affect in relation to self and object.