Shame is one of the most powerful emotional consequences of trauma, yet it remains one of the least understood. While fear is often recognized as a hallmark of post-traumatic stress, shame tends to ...

Human emotions can be hard to sit with—especially the ones that make us feel small, flawed, or afraid. Yet one emotion often lurks in the shadows more than any other: shame. Shame is that sinking ...

To read Frédéric Gros’s A Philosophy of Shame is to be reminded of how vulnerable we are to the emotion’s inhibitions and agonies. We shame, we are ashamed, and we expend significant energy imagining ...