The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation, by Cathy O’Neil (Crown: 2022), 272 pages. Cathy O’Neil is a brilliant mathematician, erstwhile MIT prof and Wall Street quant, and former ...

Shame is one of the most frequent reasons that someone comes to my office for therapy. It's rarely the "presenting problem"; it coils like an insidious snake hiding behind anger issues, trauma, ...

Shame is one of the basic emotions, and it is normal and necessary for all of us to survive in the world. Other emotions — joy, distress, fear, and anger all have survival value, but fear, anger, and ...

One difference between guilt and shame, French philosopher Frédéric Gros points out in his book “A Philosophy of Shame: A Revolutionary Emotion,” lies in how we understand their opposites. The absence ...

A Christian philosopher pushes back on attempts to rid ourselves of this unloved emotion. In a dramatic way, Auden was recognizing a truth that even most non-Christians affirm: Human beings possess an ...

Remember Gomer Pyle, the hapless and saintly TV marine? His philosophical lexicon was limited, but it included two all-purpose expressions: Surprise, surprise, surprise! and Shame, shame, shame! The ...