Shame and Mortification in Times of Pandemic (Intl. Webinar on Psychiatry, Alzheimer's and Dementia)
Channel: Prof. Sam Vaknin
Date: 2020-10-05

Presentation to the International Webinar on Psychiatry, Alzheimer's and Dementia, October 2020

The pandemic rendered us all helpless, hopeless, insecure (it is a state of total uncertainty which cannot be mitigated), anxious (cannot be ameliorated), and subject to identity disturbance or diffusion. In short: the typical borderline reaction to narcissistic mortification.

What is the role of shame in all this? Lidija Rangelovska's theory of shame is applied.

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