Pioneers of unconscious shame 3 September 2013 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: History , Shame , No Comments On this site I have written extensively about unconscious shame – an invisible sense of shamefulness that cripples us through low self worth, anxiety, and emotional and sexual dysfunction. The idea of some overarching disease that’s […]
Veils and vaginas – why do patriarchies control sex? 25 June 2012 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: History , News , Patriarchy , No Comments In an incendiary article in Foreign Policy magazine titled Why Do They Hate Us? [link no longer works] Mona Eltahawy lays bare the “pulsating heart of misogyny in the Middle East” with a […]
Deconstructing Vincent Tabak 25 June 2012 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Shame , No Comments On Friday, 28 October 2011, 33-year-old Dutch engineer Vincent Tabak was convicted of murdering his neighbour, Joanna Yeates, in her Bristol apartment. The prosecution’s evidence showed that the burly Tabak gripped Yeates by the throat with one […]
The real crime of Jennifer Thompson 25 June 2012 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Sexuality , No Comments On 5 September 2010, as the England football team prepared to face Switzerland in Basle for a vital 2012 European Championship qualifier, revelations emerged in the Sunday press regarding an alleged liaison between the […]
Lynndie England – Private Shame 13 April 2012 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Shame , 1 Comment As a child, Lynndie England was once hit so hard with a table-tennis bat by her mother that the bat snapped. “I was brought up right,” she told Emma Brockes in an interview for the British newspaper The […]
The elephant in the room of porn 9 April 2012 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Pornography , No Comments It’s a common situation, common enough that it no longer shocks or surprises. A woman discovers that her partner is using pornography. There is no way of knowing how many couples this situation affects, for […]
Pink Floyd’s The Wall – a rock opera on sexual shame 18 March 2012 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , Mother wound , Shame , No Comments During my adolescence, in what I only later realised was a subtly but significantly dysfunctional family, rock music was the main fault line between my father […]