Peter Shabad, Ph.D. is on the faculties of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, Chicago Center of Psychoanalysis and Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He is co-editor of The Problem of Loss and Mourning: Psychoanalytic Perspectives and author of Despair and the Return of Hope
When unmourned experiences of helplessness and disavowed desires turn into a passive fatalism, people stop hoping for the best and fear the worst, despairing that the real world has anything good to... (more)
This book examines how humans can overcome feelings of shame through self-acceptance and regain their innate passion and freedom to grow.
Peter Shabad examines in detail how self-shaming and... (more)