Shame as an evolved basic affect–approaches to it within the Comprehensive Resource Model (CRM)
FM Corrigan, E Elkin-Cleary�- Medical Hypotheses, 2018 - Elsevier
Shame is an evolved emotional response which requires relational evaluation at a prefrontal
cortical level but which has the visceral sensation and defence response impulse of a basic
affect. We argue that the severe forms of shame, those residual from traumatic interpersonal
experiences, have midbrain and diencephalic components mediating experiences of painful
withdrawal while anhedonia is derived from a negatively valenced state of the mesolimbic
dopamine system. This specific form of separation distress, with a characteristic sense of�…
cortical level but which has the visceral sensation and defence response impulse of a basic
affect. We argue that the severe forms of shame, those residual from traumatic interpersonal
experiences, have midbrain and diencephalic components mediating experiences of painful
withdrawal while anhedonia is derived from a negatively valenced state of the mesolimbic
dopamine system. This specific form of separation distress, with a characteristic sense of�…