Shame-based issues #2 – Depersonalisation 3 March 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , No Comments “You’re staring straight ahead. Somehow your awareness peels away from you, in slow motion. It’s like you’ve cracked in two, and one half is facing the wrong way. Are you in your physical body, which you know […]
Shame-based issues #1 – Self-harm 3 March 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , No Comments 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 , No Comments 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 , Shame , 4 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 distant past. This brief […]
A celebrity and criminal shame casebook 3 March 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Shame , No 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 […]
What is unconscious shame? 3 March 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Shame , No 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 […]
Is autism linked to shame? 13 February 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , No Comments On this site I’ve written extensively about unconscious shame. Over the years, my understanding of the power of unconscious shame has grown. One of the areas where my knowledge has grown is around generational trauma. This is […]
“MAX POSS. ERROR” – the shame of Donald Crowhurst 4 October 2016 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , No Comments 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 […]
The curious case of the blindfold and the strap-on 15 September 2015 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Shame , No Comments You wouldn’t read about it in the The Erotic Sherlock Holmes, that obscure Victorian casebook which men smirked over during billiards and women with pince-nez glasses curdled their faces at while desperately […]
The sexual radicalisation of Elliot Rodger 18 June 2015 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Radicalisation , Shame , No Comments 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, who have […]