Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Gaze, Body Image, Shame, Judgment and Maternal Function

Have you ever been praised or criticized about your body or any part of it? With this question, participants of a research study were invited to share their experiences of body judgment. As participants described, the body is a carrier of messages and the source of judgmental experiences.

Lía A. Roth, PsyaD, was born in Argentina, where she studied psychology at the University of Buenos Aires. Once in the United States, she obtained a master's and a doctoral degree. In 2016, the Internarional Psychoanalytic Association awarded Dr. Roth a Research Training Fellowship.

1. Made out of Crystal 2. The Body Image 3. We Are All Zeligs 4. Branded by Shame, Taste Values 5. Cracked Mirror, Branded by Shame 6. Does it Happen Everywhere the Same? 7. Being and Belonging 8. Shame, Body Image, Maternal Function, and Judgement