Sluzki, 2005: "SHAME, HUMILLIATION AND THE THERAPEUTIC PROCESS"

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SHAME AND HUMILIATION: DIRECTION OF THE PROCESS OF CHANGE Carlos E. Sluzki

TITLES OF THE THREE DIAGRAMS THAT FOLLOW:

#1. Variables that push toward either Shame or Humiliation (and with different intensity), given a triggering situation

#2. Direction of the therapeutic process when shame is dominant

#3. Direction of the therapeutic process when humiliation is dominant

(Sluzki, 2005) #1 --GIVEN A TRIGGERING SITUATION...

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HUMILIATION and revenge

SOOTHING (dampens revenge reaction)

SHAME and hiding

SOOTHING (dampens hiding reaction)

Hostile witness Empathic (or Perpetrator) witness

Internalizing style

Externalizing style

(Sluzki, 2005) #2-- FROM SHAME TO HUMILLIATION TO IDEAS OF REVENGE TO EMPOWERMENT

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HUMILIATION

ENTERTAINING IDEAS OF REVENGE

SHAME

EMPOWERMENT

Hostile witness Therapeutic witness

Internalizing style

Externalizing style

(Sluzki, 2005) #3-- FROM HUMILLIATION TO SHAME TO SOOTHING TO REDRESSING

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HUMILIATION and revenge

REDRESSING &

COEXISTENCE

SHAME and hiding

SOOTHING & EMPOWERMENT

Hostile witness Therapeutic witness

Internalizing style

Externalizing style