The Bright Side of Shame

Introduction: Transforming Shame (Claude-Hélène Mayer).- Part I: Transforming Shame in Cultural Perspectives.- Chapter 1. Cultivating lajjA for Self-Realization: Perspectives from Indian Psychology (Dharma Prakash Sharma Bhawuk).- Chapter 2. Shame Transformation Using an Islamic Psycho-Spiritual Approach for Malay Muslims Recovering from Substance Dependence (Dini Farhana Baharudin).- Chapter 3. The Effect of Regulation on Shame in Adolescence in China (Liusheng Wang).- Chapter 4. Ashamed of My Ancestors: Transforming Trans-Generational Shame in Descendants of Perpetrators (Tanja Meyburgh).- Chapter 5. Transforming Shame in Context: Shame, HIV/AIDS in South Africa - From a 'Death Sentence' to Hope (B. Nkosi).- Part II: Transforming Shame in Organisational and Professional Contexts.- Chapter 6. Managing Shame in Organisations: Don't Let Shame Become a Self-Destructive Spiral (Rudolf Oousthuizen).- Chapter 7. Shame! Whose shame is it? - Addressing Shame Within Systems (Louise Tonelli).- Chapter 8. Motivational Interviewing Techniques in Coaching when Faced with Clearly Identified Shame Issues (Len Andrieux).- Chapter 9. The New Story for a Historically Black University: Lecturers Through a Stay-Away Action Disowning Shame! (Michelle S. May).- Chapter 10. Shame and Anxiety with Foreign Language Learners (Paul A. Wilson).- Chapter 11. Shame at the Bottom of the Pyramid: A Transformative Consumer Research Perspective (Leona Ungerer).- Chapter 12. Managing Shame in the Context of Unemployment (N.N).- Chapter 13. Review Dialogues and Shame in Doctor-Patient Interaction (Ottomar Bahrs).- Chapter 14. Dealing with Shame in a Medical Context (Iris Veit).- Chapter 15 The Team Ombuds Model (tOm): A Macro-Didactic Concept to Transforming Shame in Multicultural Educational Contexts (Christina Martin Boness).- Part III: Shame and its Transformation in the Context of Gender.- Chapter 16. Reconstructing Gender to Transcend Shame: Embracing Human Functionality to Enable Agentic and

Claude-Hélène Mayer is an Adjunct Professor at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, and a Senior Research Associate at the Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. She has published several monographs, text collections, journal articles and special issues on transcultural mental health and well-being, conflict management and mediation in transcultural contexts, women in leadership, and psychobiography.

Elisabeth Vanderheiden is a pedagogue, theologian, mediator, Managing Director of Catholic Adult Education Rhineland-Palatinate, and Federal Chairperson of Catholic Adult Education Germany. She has published numerous articles on vocational qualification, in particular for teachers and trainers, as well as current topics in general, vocational and civic education and intercultural opening processes.