COVER -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I DEVELOPMENTAL REALM -- CHAPTER ONE Shame in childhood -- CHAPTER TWO Puberty, adolescence, and shame -- CHAPTER THREE Shame across the adult lifespan -- PART II CULTURAL REALM -- CHAPTER FOUR The cultural faces of shame -- CHAPTER FIVE Shame and murder-suicide: Adolf Hitler and the Nazi cult of death -- PART III CLINICAL REALM -- CHAPTER SIX Shame and shamelessness -- CHAPTER SEVEN Laziness and its links to shame -- CHAPTER EIGHT Shame and the aversion to apologizing -- CHAPTER NINE The dialectic of shame in cross-cultural therapeutic encounters -- CHAPTER TEN The role of shame in treating maniaca ltriumph and paranoia -- CHAPTER ELEVEN The analyst's sense of shame -- References -- INDEx.