Peter Shabad, PhD, is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois. He is on the Teaching and Supervising Faculty of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and he is on the Faculty of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is also Supervising and Training Analyst at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He is an Associate Editor on the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Dr. Shabad is co-editor of The Problem of Loss and Mourning: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (IUP, 1989) and is the author of Despair and the Return of Hope: Echoes of Mourning in Psychotherapy (Aronson, 2001). He is the author of numerous papers and book chapters on diverse topics such as the psychological implications of death, loss and mourning, giving and receiving, shame, parental envy, resentment, spite, and regret. Dr. Shabad’s new book Passion, Shame, and The Freedom To Become: Seizing The Vital Moment In Psychoanalysis (2025) has just been published by Routledge.

Interviewer

Cynthia Mulder, LCSW, is a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Houston, Texas. She is an assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine, faculty of the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, and past-president of the Houston Psychoanalytic Society. She previously was employed as a family therapist at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. She later joined the Menninger Clinic in Houston as an individual, group and family therapist, and subsequently was appointed as Menninger’s Director of Education and Training. Ms. Mulder began facilitating Brené Brown’s curriculum on shame, vulnerability and authenticity - The Daring WayTM to patients at Menninger and training clinicians across the country. Ms. Mulder has presented nationally about shame resilience and suicide.

REFERENCES

Shabad, P. (2022) Owing and being owed: Shame and responsibility toward the other. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 32:4, 389-404.

Shabad, P. (2020). The forward edge of resistance: Toward the dignity of human agency. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 30 (1): 51-63.

Shabad, P. (2017). The vulnerability of giving: Ethics and the generosity of receiving. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 37 (6): 359-374.