Judith M. Pilla, PhD, is a psychotherapist in private practice with over two decades of experience successfully treating individuals, couples, families, and groups. For the past ten years, she has focused her study, research, and clinical practice on understanding the problems engendered by shame. She contributes as an international presenter and workshop leader on the subject for professional clinicians and the public in countries as diverse as Sweden, Canada, Israel, England, and across the United States. Her expertise as a clinical nurse specialist in psychiatry, a clinical social worker, and director of qualitative research for a global healthcare company, grounds her commitment to scientific research, evidence-based knowledge, and the use of clinically proven methods in her practice.  She is the winner of the Joan Sall Rivitz fellowship award for her doctoral research at Bryn Mawr College and is a charter member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing at Thomas Jefferson University. She and her husband live outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In addition to her clinical practice and her writing, she devotes time to being the proud mother of two adult children with their wonderful families.

“If the question is “What’s shame got to do it?”—for us as individuals, in our relationships, and in our wider world—Dr. Pilla’s well researched and carefully argued answer is “everything.” Shame’s effects are not purely personal, nor are they only damaging. They also benefit us every day. Packed with examples from her long clinical experience, history, and culture, How Shame Runs the World offers sophisticated guidance to transform both our understanding and our experience.” —Dana Becker, PhD, professor emerita of social work and social research, Bryn Mawr College and author of One Nation Under Stress: The Trouble with Stress as an Idea

Judith M. Pilla, PhD, is a psychotherapist in private practice with over two decades of experience successfully treating individuals, couples, families, and groups. For the past ten years, she has focused her study, research, and clinical practice on understanding the problems engendered by shame. She contributes as an international presenter and workshop leader on the subject for professional clinicians and the public in countries as diverse as Sweden, Canada, Israel, England, and across the United States. Her expertise as a clinical nurse specialist in psychiatry, a clinical social worker, and director of qualitative research for a global healthcare company, grounds her commitment to scientific research, evidence-based knowledge, and the use of clinically proven methods in her practice.  She is the winner of the Joan Sall Rivitz fellowship award for her doctoral research at Bryn Mawr College and is a charter member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing at Thomas Jefferson University. She and her husband live outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In addition to her clinical practice and her writing, she devotes time to being the proud mother of two adult children with their wonderful families.

“If the question is “What’s shame got to do it?”—for us as individuals, in our relationships, and in our wider world—Dr. Pilla’s well researched and carefully argued answer is “everything.” Shame’s effects are not purely personal, nor are they only damaging. They also benefit us every day. Packed with examples from her long clinical experience, history, and culture, How Shame Runs the World offers sophisticated guidance to transform both our understanding and our experience.” —Dana Becker, PhD, professor emerita of social work and social research, Bryn Mawr College and author of One Nation Under Stress: The Trouble with Stress as an Idea

Judith M. Pilla, PhD, is a psychotherapist in private practice with over two decades of experience successfully treating individuals, couples, families, and groups. For the past ten years, she has focused her study, research, and clinical practice on understanding the problems engendered by shame. She contributes as an international presenter and workshop leader on the subject for professional clinicians and the public in countries as diverse as Sweden, Canada, Israel, England, and across the United States. Her expertise as a clinical nurse specialist in psychiatry, a clinical social worker, and director of qualitative research for a global healthcare company, grounds her commitment to scientific research, evidence-based knowledge, and the use of clinically proven methods in her practice.  She is the winner of the Joan Sall Rivitz fellowship award for her doctoral research at Bryn Mawr College and is a charter member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing at Thomas Jefferson University. She and her husband live outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In addition to her clinical practice and her writing, she devotes time to being the proud mother of two adult children with their wonderful families.

“If the question is “What’s shame got to do it?”—for us as individuals, in our relationships, and in our wider world—Dr. Pilla’s well researched and carefully argued answer is “everything.” Shame’s effects are not purely personal, nor are they only damaging. They also benefit us every day. Packed with examples from her long clinical experience, history, and culture, How Shame Runs the World offers sophisticated guidance to transform both our understanding and our experience.” —Dana Becker, PhD, professor emerita of social work and social research, Bryn Mawr College and author of One Nation Under Stress: The Trouble with Stress as an Idea