Shame-based issues #1 – Self-harm 3 March 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , 1 Comment In other blogs I have written about how high sensitivity, anxiety, doubt, panic, low self-esteem and low confidence are a family of related feelings. Such feelings consequently give rise to a family of behaviours as a means […]
What are shame-based issues? 3 March 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Shame , 1 Comment Unconscious shame has given rise to a family of shame-based issues that all share a common denominator: the inability to discuss them. I’ve written about the origins of this shame in A brief history of shame. […]
A brief history of shame 3 March 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , History , Patriarchy , Shame , 12 Comments In What is unconscious shame? I’ve written about how shame affects us today. In What is ancestral trauma? I’ve written about the shame we still unconsciously carry from the dim and […]
A celebrity and criminal shame casebook 3 March 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , 2 Comments While unconscious shame is by definition invisible, there are a number of highly visible situations where the stamp of shame is so powerful – for those who recognise its clues – as to be unmistakable. It […]
What is unconscious shame? 3 March 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Shame , 2 Comments We live in a society that’s historically been emotionally and sexually repressed. The psychological mechanism by which we repress our socially unacceptable emotional and sexual impulses is unconscious shame. Unconscious shame is a layer of invisible […]
6 Tips for surviving Christmas 19 December 2016 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: How-to & step-by-step , 1 Comment “‘Tis the season to be jolly, fa-la-la-la-la, la-la la la…” Or not. For a lot of people, Christmas is not the time of greatest joy but of the greatest anxiety, stress and depression. Obnoxious jumpers, […]
“MAX POSS. ERROR” – the shame of Donald Crowhurst 4 October 2016 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , 1 Comment In this blog I have sometimes used real-life examples as case studies of unconscious shame, from public figures such as Amy Winehouse and Michael Jackson, to others such as Vincent Tabak and Private Lynndie England who would have remained […]
If war is to end, so must war stories 20 February 2016 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , Patriarchy , 1 Comment Ca-ching! Multiplex cash registers around the world are still sizzling hot from the record-breaking box office performance of The Force Awakens, episode seven of the long-running Star Wars saga. Star Wars Inside […]
The sexual radicalisation of Elliot Rodger 18 June 2015 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Radicalisation , Sexuality , Shame , 1 Comment Radicalisation. This single, scary word has rapidly shot to prominence in British current affairs. Everyday the news carries stories of people who want to go to Syria, who have gone to Syria, […]
Point Blank – Springsteen and the shadow of shame 5 March 2015 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , Shame , 2 Comments As the 1960s gave way to the 1970s, hopes of a freer and more egalitarian society arising from the flower power revolution and the Summer of Love gave way to disillusion […]