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Porn addiction is a cry for help from the unconscious 3 November 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Pornography , No Comments If you’re reading this, you may be looking for porn addiction help. Help comes with understanding. Let’s start by looking at the porn addiction cycle. You’re feeling down. The urge to look […]

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. […]

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 […]

Pioneers of unconscious shame 3 September 2013 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: History , Shame , No Comments On this site I have written extensively about unconscious shame – an invisible sense of shamefulness that cripples us through low self worth, anxiety, and emotional and sexual dysfunction. The idea of some overarching disease that’s […]