Are you ashamed of presenting yourself to the world? 23 April 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , No Comments Shame does not announce itself. It doesn’t arrive as a clear thought or labelled with a health warning. It dwells underground: buried in our unconscious, wrapped in denial, reinforced by silence and the […]
Pointing the finger – weaponizing shame 16 March 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Patriarchy , Shame , 2 Comments Those staring eyes… that bushy moustache… that accusatory finger. It’s one of the most iconic posters in history. With the stark call to action Your Country Needs You, this poster encouraged thousands of young men to […]
Tourette’s syndrome – a presentation of unconscious shame 7 December 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , 1 Comment Tourette’s Syndrome is a condition that the medical establishment has been unable to cure. I’ve recently had success treating it as a presentation of unconscious shame. Here I present my reasoning and results. What […]
Jean-Léon Gérôme – Truth emerges from her well to shame mankind 24 September 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , Shame , 1 Comment Late in his life, classical French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) painted a series of canvases on the topic of truth, depicted as a nude woman, trapped in or emerging […]
Isolation – the invisible prison of shame 6 June 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , Shame , 1 Comment Isolation. This single word has been staring at me from a yellow Post-it note I scribbled during a webinar a couple of weeks ago. I can no longer remember why I wrote […]
All addictions are unresolved traumas 29 May 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , Pornography , Shame , 1 Comment My personal journey into recognising and resolving trauma began with addiction—in this case, pornography. While I quickly realised that porn addiction is a cry for help from the unconscious, I didn’t at […]
Denial – how we make shame unconscious 28 May 2024 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , 1 Comment I have written ad nauseum about the unconscious shame that smothers our society. I haven’t written so much about the denial that makes and keeps it unconscious—precisely because I couldn’t see it clearly myself. So, […]
Disgrace – the deepest form of shame 1 November 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , 1 Comment For many years I’ve been excavating the unconscious—the place where, as Laura Knight-Jadczyk writes, “are found unfathomable depths of the rejected, the unacknowledged, the unrecognised, the unknown and undeveloped elements of our existence.” Through consistent […]
Peeing in the bushes – the shame of bodily functions 17 August 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , 4 Comments People go walking in nature for different reasons: exercise, fresh air, views, to search for flora and fauna. Yet I find that whenever I go walking with several women, one subject inevitably […]
Derision, social media, and shaming for entertainment 13 July 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , 1 Comment The advent of social media has provided a new forum for a very ancient human practice—derision, or shaming for entertainment. In the opening scene of Albert Hitchcock’s classic spy caper, The 39 Steps, the hero, […]