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 the self. In guilt, the self is focused on negative behaviors, but the self is not the focus. John Bradshaw once called shame “the master emotion because as it is …
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 information is presented seemingly without prejudice, to brains that are reduced in frequency reception from beta (active attention, such as required by reading) to alpha (passive attention, the attendant lack …
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 realities.” The culture depends for its sustenance on having a populace that is, in effect, asleep.We are continually manipulated, coerced and cajoled into buying into having the illusion of control …
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 first and only duty is the “development and refinement of consciousness”, living the sacred in contemporary technological civilization is often viewed as a crime, and a direct threat to the …
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 approach to living. I believe thatgreed in any and every form is an attempt to fill a vast, aching inner emptiness, this illusory goal of “enough.” Greed is the supreme …
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 the impact of them, even in the face of evidence to the contrary (e.g., “Your daddy didn’t really mean to hit you. It was an accident”; or “I’m not really …
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Stefan J. Malecek, Ph. D. is the author of five previous Paul Marzeky novels, and Crucible of Shame, a clinical book discussing the origins of addiction and “mental illness.” He worked in many aspects of psychiatry before earning his Ph.D. in 2006 He retired from private practice in 2013, and has been happily living on the island of Maui and writing full-time since. He is at work on a book presenting his unique take on the retirement years in Transcendental Retirement (forthcoming in 2019), and the sixth book of the Paul Marzeky Mystery Series Excelsior!
