Pt. I Developmental Realm -- Shame in Childhood / Ann Smolen -- Puberty, adolescence, and shame / Mali Mann -- Shame across the adult lifespan / Mark Moore -- Pt. II Cultural Realm -- The cultural faces of shame / Apurva Shah -- Shame and murder-suicide: Adolf Hitler and the Nazi cult of death / Ira Brenner -- Pt. III Clinical Realm -- Shame and Shamelessness / Salman Akhtar -- Laziness and its links to shame / Jerome S. Blackman -- Shame and the aversion to apologizing / Melvin R. Lansky -- The dialectic of shame in cross-cultural therapeutic encounters / Christie Platt -- The role of shame in treating maniacal triumph and paranoia / Patricia L. Gibbs -- The analyst's sense of shame / Anne J. Adelman