The Menstuff® library lists pertinent books concerning various
feelings including anger,assertiveness, depression, fear,
forgiveness, general, grief, joy, loneliness and shame, which are
listed separately. See also books on Anger,
assertiveness, depression,
fear, forgiveness,
general, grief,
joy, loneliness
and Issues on Feelings.
Barry, Alyce, Practically
Shameless: How Shadow Work helped me find my voice, my path
and my inner gold. This book is an uplifting and compassionate
guide to transforming your life through Shadow Work. Using the
author's own journey towards healing and contentment, including a
riveting first-person account of Shadow Work processes, this
life-affirming narrative demonstrates how to honor your life,
understand and befriend your resistance, and effect the lasting
change you desire. Practically Shameless Press, www.PracticallyShameless.com,
2008, ISBN 978-0-9798326-1-6 
Also available in audio CD format (Five hours 32 minutes)
ISBN 978-0-9798326-2-8 
Bradshaw, John, Healing the Shame that Binds You. In an
emotionally revealing way the author shows us how toxic shame is
the core problem in our compulsions, co-dependencies, addictions
and the drive to super achieve, resulting in the breakdown in the
family system and our inability to go forward with our lives. We
are bound by our shame. But drawing from his 22 years of
experience as a counselor, he offers us the techniques to heal our
shame. Using affirmations, visualizations, "inner voice" and
"feeling" work plus guided meditations and other useful healing
techniques, that releases the shame that binds us to our past.
This important book breaks new ground in the core issues of
societal and personal breakdown, offering new techniques of
recovery vital to all of us. Health Communications, 1988
ISBN 0-932194-86-9
E, Stephnie, Shame Faced. Scratch the surface of most
alcoholics and addicts and you will find shame. Even well into
recovery, shame shackles us from growth and serenity. This booklet
takes the reader onto the road of recovery through the Steps of
AA. With compassion and practicality, it is filled with more than
just awareness. It is filled with hope. Hazelden, 1986
Fossum, Merle, Facing Shame: Families in Recovery.
Families that return for treatment time and again often have
problems that seem unrelated - such as compulsive, addictive or
abusive behaviors - but that are linked by an underlying process
of shame. Comparing the shame-bound family system with the
respectful family system, the authors outline the assumptions
underlying their depth approach to family therapy, and take the
reader step by step through the stages of therapy. Case examples
are used to illustrate the process. Norton, 1986
Kaufman, Gershen, Shame: The power of caring. The book
probes a neglected dimension of the human experience. To feel
shame is to feel seen in a painfully diminished sense. The self
feels exposed both to itself and to anyone else present. It is
this sudden, unexpected feeling of exposure and accompanying
self-consciousness that characterizes the essential nature of the
affect of shame. Contained in the experience of shame is the
piercing awareness of ourselves as fundamentally deficient in some
vital way as a human being. Writing in an informal style that
permits the reader to join directly in the exploration, the author
carefully examines how shame so disturbs the functioning of the
self that eventually distinct syndromes of shame can develop.
These syndromes, rooted in significant interpersonal failure and
governed by internalized scenes of shame, cripple self-identity
with insecurity, inadequacy, mistrust and inferiority. Schenkman,
1985
Kurtz, Ernest, Shame & Guilt: Characteristics of
the dependency cycle, an historical perspective for
professionals. Shame and guilt, for each chemically dependent
person, distinguishing and confronting these often-confused
emotions is necessary not only to attain sobriety, but more
importantly, to maintain ongoing recovery. This book sheds light
on the differences between shame and guilt and explains how
chemical dependency professionals can better recognize these
emotions in their patients. In great depth, the author discusses
how and why A A works as a therapy for shame and guilt and
relates how professionals can use the Twelve Step principles and
philosophy of AA to help patients deal with these emotions.
Harper/Hazelden, 1981
Lawrence, D. H., Fantasia of the Unconscious: Psychoanalysis
& the unconscious. Penguin, 1983
Martin, Sara Hines, Shame on You! Help for adults from
alcoholic and other shame-bound families. How often did you
hear that type of statement from parents, and other authority
figures as you grew up? How often did you receive
shaming statements? This book deals with the way families can
become shame bound, producing shame-based individuals...but the
emphasis of the book is on the feelings children have rather than
what parents did. This book offers help to those who want to cut
loose from shame and move forward toward wholeness. Broadman,
1990
Middleton-Moz, Jane, Shame & Guilt: Masters of
disguise. This book describes how debilitating shame is
created and fostered in childhood and how it manifests itself in
adulthood and in intimate relationships. The author uses myths and
fairy tales to portray different shaming environments, to allow
the reader to reach the shamed child within and to add clarity to
what could be difficult concepts. Here you can learn how shame
keeps you from being the person you were born to be and how to
change that. Health Communications, 1990
Perera, Sylvia Brinton, Scapegoat Complex: Toward a
mythology of shadow & guilt. The term scapegoat is applied
to individuals and groups who are accused of causing misfortune.
Scapegoating means finding those who can be identified with evil,
blamed for it, and cast out from the family or the community in
order to leave the remaining members with a feeling of
guiltlessness. Psychologically, scapegoating is a form of denying
the shadow - by projecting it onto others. Shadow here refers to
attitudes, behavior and emotions that do not conform with ego
ideals, or with the supposed perfect goodness of God. Instead of
being recognized as components of one's own humanity, and of God's
wholeness, they are repressed and denied, split off and made
unconscious. This hard-hitting book examines many aspects of
scapegoat psychology as it manifests in modern men and women, with
a wealth of examples from the author's analytic practice. It also
looks behind the scapegoat complex to the underlying archetypal
pattern as it appears in mythology and in the Judeo-Christian
tradition. Inner City, 1986
Potter-Efron, Ronald & Patricia, Letting Go of
Shame. Shame is a universal emotion that everyone experiences
to one degree or another in their live. Today it is widely
recognized that acute shame - the belief that we are basically
defective as human beings - is the core symptom of growing up in a
dysfunctional family. In extreme cases shame can disconnect us
from our family, our community and ourselves, and can lead to
deep, painful despair and self-hatred. The authors explore the
nature of shame; they reveal its sources, show its important and
healthy function, and distinguish the effects of normal shame from
that of excessive shame and a deficiency of shame. It will help
all those whose lives have been touched with shame to reconnect
with themselves and the world and move beyond despair and self
hatred. Harper/Hazelden, 1989
Rushdie, Salman, Shame. The country in this story is not
Pakistan, or not quite. There are two countries, real or
fictional, occupying the same space, or almost the same space.
This story, about this "fictional" country, exists, like the
author himself, at a slight angle to reality. Vintage, 1989
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