Self and Shame: A Gestalt Approach.

Shame, both a universal human feeling and also one of the most potentially disorganizing of all affect experiences, has been relatively neglected in clinical writing until recent years and even today remains in unclear focus in much of our dominant clinical tradition and thinking about self- models. Both this neglect and this lack of focus are much clarified by a Gestalt model Of self-experience and self-process, a perspective which raises paradigmatic questions for our thinking about human nature and relational process.