Humiliation: Mental Health and Public Shame

Front Cover......Page 1
Humiliation: Mental Health and Public Shame......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
About the Authors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Preface: Seeding Violence......Page 14
Chapter 1 What Is Humiliation?......Page 16
 1.1. Some Aspects of the Word ‘Humiliation’......Page 21
 1.2. Degradation......Page 22
 1.3. Confusion, Powerlessness, and Helplessness......Page 26
 1.4. Violation/Assault......Page 28
 1.5. Feeling of Injustice......Page 30
 1.6. Fear of Future Humiliations and Public Exposure......Page 32
 1.7. Exclusion......Page 33
 1.8. Public Exposure and Individual Values......Page 34
 1.9. Effect on Self-esteem......Page 36
 1.10. Self-esteem, Shame and Humiliation......Page 37
 1.11. The #MeToo Campaign......Page 40
 1.12. Our Ability to Hurt Others......Page 42
 1.13. Power......Page 43
 1.14. Rank of Status......Page 44
 1.15. Humiliation and Memory......Page 45
 1.16. Personality......Page 46
 1.17. Self-image, Values, and Self-esteem......Page 47
 1.18. Defence Mechanisms......Page 48
 1.19. Preserving a Healthy Self-esteem......Page 51
 2.1. Differences between Shame and Humiliation......Page 54
 2.2. Ruining Self-esteem and Self-image......Page 58
 2.3. Additional Psychological Understanding of Self-image and Self-esteem......Page 60
 2.5. What Activates Humiliations?......Page 61
 2.6. Humiliation and Narcissism......Page 63
 2.7. Symptoms and Traits of Narcissism......Page 64
  2.8.1. Affective Symptoms......Page 69
  2.8.2. Interpersonal Symptoms......Page 70
 2.9. Overt versus Covert Narcissism......Page 71
 2.10. Vulnerability to Humiliations......Page 74
 2.11. Humiliation as Seeding Mental Illness, Violence, and Terrorism......Page 76
 2.12. Vulnerability and Entitlement......Page 83
 2.13. Humiliation on Behalf of Others......Page 84
Chapter 3 Healing, Neutralizing, and Preventing Humiliation......Page 86
 3.1. Empathy......Page 89
 3.2. Neutralizing Humiliations......Page 90
 3.3. Human Dignity, Power Balance, Status Rank, and Compassion......Page 91
 3.4. Challenging the Freedom to Humiliate Others......Page 93
 3.5. Revisiting Cases of Humiliation......Page 95
 3.6. Core Values and Reducing Humiliation-inspired Terrorism......Page 120
 3.7. Toolbox for Neutralizing Humiliation......Page 121
Bibliography......Page 126
Index......Page 134