Shame and Pride: Affect, Sex, and the Birth of the Self (Revised)

Drawing on every theme of the modern life sciences, Donald Nathanson shows how nine basic effects--interest-excitement, enjoyment-joy, surprise-startle, fear-terror, distress-anguish, anger-rage, dissmell, disgust, and shame-humiliation--not only determine how we feel but shape our very sense of self.

For too long those who explain emotional discomfort on the basis of lived experience and those who blame chemistry have been at loggerheads. As Dr. Nathanson shows, chemicals and illnesses can affect our mood just as surely as an uncomfortable memory or a stern rebuke.

Linking for the first time the affect theory of the pioneering researcher Silvan S. Thompkins with the entire world of biology, medicine, psychology, psychotherapy, religion, and the social sciences, Dr. Nathanson presents a completely new understanding of all emotion.


Author: Donald L. Nathanson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03/01/1994
Pages: 498
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780393311099

About the Author
Nathanson, Donald L.: - Donald L. Nathanson, M.D., (1936-2018) was the founder and Executive Director of the Silvan S. Tomkins Institute. He held the position of Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Jefferson Medical College.