From guilt to shame : Auschwitz and after /

Why has shame recently displaced guilt as a dominant emotional reference in the West? After the Holocaust, survivors often reported feeling guilty for living when so many others had died, and in the 1960s psychoanalysts and psychiatrists in the United States helped make survivor guilt a defining fea...

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Main Author: Leys, Ruth
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2007.
Series:20/21 (Princeton, N.J.)
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