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Shame
Shame: The “Birth” Or Beginning Of Shame Guilt says “I did something wrong.” Shame says “I am something wrong.” The experience of shame is a directly negative evaluation of

Television and Violence
Mander (1977) spoke extensively to the “Unifying of experience” and “Lack of alternative choices” afforded by the television experience―especially in the delimited manner in which

Ideology and Advertising
Wolinsky believed that we are all responsible for creating what he calls “Our own personal trances,” and the construction of our own “hypnotic and phenomenological

Ideology
Contemporary societyhas deified technology in all its manifestations. This “commodification of culture” both feeds and is fed by our addicted society.Though Argüelles asserted that our

On Greed
While greed may be an excessive or rapacious desire for wealthor possessions,the definition does not address the psychological conditions that drive one to adopt this

Caustic Cycle of Shame
1. Denial of one’s own reality. When one is shamed, the bond of trust is shattered. One denies the actuality of one’s own experiences; or minimalize
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CRUCIBLE OF SHAME:
HEALING THE SOCIETAL ROOTS OF ADDICTION AND "MENTAL ILLNESS"
Guilt says “I did something wrong.” Shame says “I am something wrong.” The experience of shame is a direct negative evaluation of the self. In guilt, the self is focused on negative behaviors, but the self is not the focus. In this book, the author discusses the effects of toxic shame, and how to deal with trauma, addiction and mental illness.
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During living life, everyone takes on the burden of unexpressed emotions, regrets and missed opportunities around which may develop a kind of psychic scar tissue which might eventually lead to emotional and psychological trauma.
CRAZY TALES OF COMBAT PSYCHIATRY
Book 1 of the Paul Marzeky Mystery Series
SPIRALS OF TIME
Book 2 of the Paul Marzeky Mystery Series
Paul’s life has become a series of spirals, going forward and back, incorporating ever-new life experiences as he plunges head on into the veritable cornucopia of delights presented to a young man fresh home from the war, and living in San Francisco at the end of the 1960’s.
UNWITTING WITNESSES
Book 3 of the Paul Marzeky Mystery Series
Paul has returned from Vietnam, and has been growing his clinical skills for a number of years working on high volume in-patient psychiatric units. He is daily immersed in working with people, often involuntary patients hospitalized because of their potential as being a danger to self or others.
ALCHEMY’S ANGEL
Book 4 of the Paul Marzeky Mystery Series
Paul Marzeky has established a private practice, and continues his own unique brand of psychotherapeutic healing with a variety of clients in San Francisco.