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Book
Shame
the
and
Birth
Pride:
By Donald
New
York,
ISBN
Affect,
of the
instein
once
remarked,
and no simpler.
his book
Shame
Birth
Donald
complexity
treatise
the relevance
The
just
such
in human
much,
to Silvan
experience.
Tomkins,
who
thought
and
his theory
Nathanson
begins
makes
things
drives
of
worse.
us.
sense
logical
it
rather
things
Affect
Moreover,
simbetis the
affect
is a
built-in
biologically
determined
amplifier
of
our internal
and external
experiences,
no less
important
in evolutionary
terms
than
the
development
of intelligence.
Nathanson
briefly
reviews
the history
of
emotion
theory,
beginning
with
The Expression
of Emotions
mals. He critically
reviews
hypothesis,
Hillman
mation
Freuds
theory,
theories
theory.
the innate
and
that
releases
Darwins
and Ani-
the James-Lange
theory,
the Jung-
and other
energy
transforbefore
segueing
into his and
Tomkinss
emotion,
drive
in Man
In it, affect
strictly
triggered
a pattern
is defined
biological
by a specific
of biological
portion
stimulus
events.
that
Tinbergen
tells
they
and
voking
believes
with
good
.
ethologists
us,
and
Affect
theory
cause
changes
by
sys-
to occur
at
is not widely
and psycho-
it is an explicit
attempt
theory
into the promisocial
and psycho-
that
bad
that
delivers.
an experimen-
developed
deserves.
The book
ple premises:
Affect
engine
for nec-
and
nearly
40 years
ago and
outside
of affect
theory
logical
in
a taste
promises
logical
testing
circles,
to bring
Tomkinss
nence
in contemporary
ter
L. Nathanson,
Affect,
and offers
a richly
conon affect
theory
to explain
tal psychologist
affect
known
in
as possible,
of shame
book
Dedicated
M.D.
Explanations
and Pride:
to the
Nathanson
tems,
$24.95
be as simple
essary
structed
pages,
L. Donnelly,
should
a nod
states
simply
that the affects
are triggered
meaning
free alterations
in biological
1992
480
by Craig
science
With
and
Lorenz,
L. Nathanson
W.W.
Norton,
Reviewed
L. Halleck,
M.D.
Forum
Editor
Self
0-393-03097-0,
Sex
Forum
behavioral
physiology.
His
are nevertheless
thought-pro-
and
appeal
to
informed
ex-
common
MacLeans
onto-
enjoyment-joy,
fear-terror,
anger-rage,
sur-
distress-anguish,
dismell,
disgust,
and
shame-
humiliation.
The
book
takes
time
to
gain
momentum
in the
early
going,
but
with
the
theory
outlined
and the nomenclature
defined,
Nathanson
then casts a wide net in
demonstrating
the range
and explanatory
utility of affect theory
in human
experience.
Topics
such as true love, shame,
pride,
the
use of pornography
to control
humiliation,
classic
drive-based
psychoanalysis,
as
bys
of
comedy
of Buddy
violence
of inner-city
pursued
attachment
from
theory,
Hackett,
the
Bowl-
masochism,
and
the
the
current
culture
in America
are
perspective
of an
fresh
affect-based
vites the
interpretation.
reader
to rethink
psychiatrys
tion,
equally
cognition,
and
Nathanson
contemporary
weighted
triad
behavior
in-
of emo-
as the basis
for
organizing
thinking
about human
being. He
suggests,
using examples
from Greek mythology, popular
culture,
and computer
modeling, that affect cannot
be so easily isolated
from thinking
and behaving.
Indeed,
as the
engine
that drives
us, it shapes
our most
private
internal
experiences
as well as our
most
complex
social
interactions.
personal
to the political,
from
the
societal,
tive
it is affect
force
to existence.
Some
of the
that
From
the sexual
provides
the
the
to
mo-
lack of jargon,
and
life make
it highly
logically
recommend
minded
this
Dr. Donnelly
Psychiatry,
is executive
Duke (Jniverity
Psychiatric
found
in the
chapters
on sexuality.
Although
falling short
of providing,
as the chapter
title suggests,
A
New Theory
of Sexuality,
Nathansons
discussion
of the differences
Reviewed
arousal
inclusive
mechanisms
in men
and insightful.
His
the
in the
developmental
female
is to be
book
in sexual
patterns
arousal
and
their
drive
and
and women
is
excursions
into
of male
versus
states
of shame,
excitement,
and fear highlight intrinsic
differences
in the experience
of
maleness
and femaleness.
The function
of
rape fantasies
in men and women
and the
counter-shaming
strategies
invoked
by homosexuals
to preserve
self-esteem
in a homophobic
culture
are examples
of the topics
that Nathanson
explores
in his discussion
of
inhibited
and uninhibited
enjoyment
of
sexual
arousal.
Vivid
and true to life, his
examples
spare the clinical jargon and metapsychology
rary literature
I found
reading
and
many
shame.
found
in much
of the contempoon human
sexuality.
this book
rereading.
things,
at bottom
It is a virtual
phenomenology
ence. The book
chotherapists
theory.
For
delightful
Although
on both
it is about
is a book
this
compendium
about
of
the
of shame
in human
experihas clear relevance
for psyand
researchers
in affect
the professional
psychotherapist
of a textbook
Its wittiness,
and
context
to
of
interpersonal
of our social
chief resident,
Department
Medical
Center,
Durham,
1991,
556
Bloch
of
EdItion
and
M.D.
Oxford
ISBN
University
Press
0-19-261864-4
pages,
$55.00
2nd
EthIcs,
by Sidney
York,
material
highly
NC.
Chodoff,
enjoyable
I can
existence.
New
and
reader.
shame
in our intrapsychic
lives and in the broader
Paul
original
casual
to real
psycho-
understand
Edited
most
vivid
applicability
accessible
to the
$120.00
hardcover,
paperback
or its second
Psychiatric
remains,
especially
M.D.
edition,
the already
popular
has been
revised
and
six new chapters
and nine new
Fortunately,
the core of gifted
Ethics
updated
with
contributors.
writers
I. Oglesby,
by Thomas
Paul
and
the
Browns
new
contributions,
Ethical
Aspects
Drug
Treatment,
are excellent.
bibliographies
are included
and
is didactic,
crafted
In
challenge
the
best
chapters
of
Although
the content
read
like
well-
essays.
their
introduction,
the readers
psychotherapeutic
the
denial
decisions
that
are
editors
routine
ethically
neutral
and carry no political
or social consequences.
They warn that the civil liberties
approach
to mental
illness,
which
is our
present
response,
could destroy
psychotherapy itself. This section
emphasizes
the practical daily need to examine
more closely
the
contemporary
ethical
issues
that guide
our
behavior
as psychiatrists.
The reader
is offered
a basic course
in
ethics,
quickly
immersed
in theoretical
topics, and then presented
concrete
clinical
examples
of contemporary
problems.
The
volume
succeeds
in describing
and suggest-