The Psychology of South Asian Shame: Mapping Caste, Colonial & Intergenerational Trauma Transmission in the Western Diaspora: A Contextual, Theoretica
暫譯: 南亞羞恥的心理學：在西方僑民中映射種姓、殖民與代際創傷傳遞：一個情境的、理論的分析
Mirza, Saira, Dhuffar-Pottiwal, Manpreet
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2026-05-15
- 售價: $6,860
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $6,517
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 207
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 3032166713
- ISBN-13: 9783032166715
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商品描述
This book reveals shame as a political, biological, and cultural inheritance, an architecture of feeling and power that silently shapes identity, belonging, and survival across South Asian diasporas.
At its core, it reframes shame through five interwoven characteristics: polarisation, hierarchy, intersectionality, weaponisation, and neuroticism, revealing how shame functions both as an emotional wound and a system of social control. It divides communities through caste and intragroup conflict; institutionalises inequality by assigning worth at birth; compounds harm through gender, colourism, class, and religion; and is wielded by dominant groups to maintain power. Internalised shame renders superiority and inferiority natural, even moral, turning difference into danger and kin into adversaries.
Drawing on historical analysis, psychological theory, and cultural narrative, the book shows how shame becomes embedded in the nervous system, carried across generations, and sustained by a conspiracy of silence. Colonialism, Partition, migration, and racism shape inner worlds, producing relational wounds that continue to define South Asian families, communities, and diasporic identities.
Introducing a suite of frameworks, the book offers culturally grounded psychological tools:
- South Asian Typology of Attachment: how early caregiving is shaped by intergenerational shame, duty, honour, caste, and emotional suppression.
- South Asian Ecological Systems theory: how trauma is transmitted through family dynamics, community expectations, caste structures, and ancestral trauma.
- South Asian Acculturation theory: how identity and belonging are negotiated across borders.
- Caste Trauma Transmission Model: how caste, patriarchy, supremacism, and capitalism reproduce trauma and shame across generations.
- South Asian Shame Model: revealing shame as a central organising principle of emotional and relational life, shaping behaviour and culturally patterned psychopathology.
Together, these frameworks move beyond Eurocentric psychology to offer a transformative account of the South Asian psyche. Ultimately, the book calls for breaking silences, challenging hierarchies, and imagining futures grounded in compassion, dignity, justice, and equity.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書揭示了羞恥作為一種政治、生物和文化的遺產，這是一種感受和權力的架構，默默地塑造著南亞散居社群的身份、歸屬感和生存。
在其核心，它通過五個交織的特徵重新框架羞恥：極化、階層、交叉性、武器化和神經質，揭示了羞恥如何同時作為情感創傷和社會控制系統運作。它通過種姓和群內衝突劃分社群；通過在出生時分配價值來制度化不平等；通過性別、顏色歧視、階級和宗教加劇傷害；並被主導群體用來維持權力。內化的羞恥使優越感和劣等感變得自然，甚至道德，將差異轉化為危險，將親人變成對手。
本書借助歷史分析、心理學理論和文化敘事，展示了羞恥如何嵌入神經系統，跨越世代傳承，並由沉默的共謀所維持。殖民主義、分治、移民和種族主義塑造了內心世界，產生了持續定義南亞家庭、社區和散居身份的關係創傷。
本書介紹了一系列框架，提供了文化根植的心理工具：
- **南亞依附類型學**：早期照顧如何受到跨世代羞恥、責任、榮譽、種姓和情感壓抑的影響。
- **南亞生態系統理論**：創傷如何通過家庭動態、社區期望、種姓結構和祖先創傷傳遞。
- **南亞文化適應理論**：身份和歸屬感如何在邊界之間進行協商。
- **種姓創傷傳遞模型**：種姓、父權主義、優越主義和資本主義如何在世代之間重複創傷和羞恥。
- **南亞羞恥模型**：揭示羞恥作為情感和關係生活的中心組織原則，塑造行為和文化模式的心理病理。
這些框架共同超越了歐洲中心的心理學，提供了南亞心靈的變革性描述。最終，本書呼籲打破沉默、挑戰階層，並想像以同情、尊嚴、公正和公平為基礎的未來。
作者簡介
PhD Researcher, School of Social Sciences, Leeds Trinity University
Saira Mirza is a doctoral researcher specialising in South Asian psychology, migration, identity, and child and family welfare. Her scholarship sits at the intersection of social justice, diaspora studies, and applied psychology, with a sustained focus on community impact and the welfare of disadvantaged children and families. She is the co-editor of the two-volume Migration Psychology series, an interdisciplinary collection exploring the psychological, cultural, and affective dimensions of diasporic life. Alongside her academic work, Saira has extensive professional experience across education, mental health, and community development, delivering evidence-based interventions that support well-being, enhance educational outcomes, and strengthen family and community resilience. Her practice is grounded in intersectional feminism, decolonisation, cultural sensitivity, and a commitment to challenging structural inequities, ensuring that research meaningfully serves vulnerable and marginalised groups.
Dr. Manpreet Dhuffar-Pottiwal, BSc, MSc, PhD, University of the West of EnglandDr. Manpreet Dhuffar-Pottiwal is an intersectional feminist psychologist dedicated to the diverse experiences of the South Asian diaspora. As founder of MultiGen Zen CIC, she supports multigenerational families navigating complex cultural expectations and promotes mental well-being through community-based initiatives. Manpreet is a Chartered Psychologist (BPS), CBT Psychotherapist, and Trainee Counselling Psychologist completing her Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology. Manpreet also holds a PhD in Behavioural Addictions, with postgraduate training in CBT and Addiction Psychology. Her clinical expertise spans intergenerational trauma transmission, behavioural addictions, and culturally sensitive mental health interventions.
Manpreet contributes to the training of future mental health professionals in academic settings. A TEDx speaker, she shares insights on social justice, South Asian psychology and community support. Her publications and conference work explore compulsive sexual behaviour, shame, and trauma, advancing understanding of behavioural addictions and culturally nuanced mental health care.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
**賽拉·米爾扎 (Saira Mirza, BA, MSc)**
**利茲三一大學社會科學學院博士研究員**
賽拉·米爾扎是一位專注於南亞心理學、移民、身份認同以及兒童與家庭福利的博士研究員。她的研究位於社會正義、散居研究和應用心理學的交匯處，持續關注社區影響及弱勢兒童和家庭的福利。她是兩卷本《移民心理學》（Migration Psychology）系列的共同編輯，這是一部跨學科的作品，探討散居生活的心理、文化和情感層面。除了學術工作外，賽拉在教育、心理健康和社區發展方面擁有豐富的專業經驗，提供基於證據的干預措施，以支持福祉、提升教育成果並增強家庭和社區的韌性。她的實踐根植於交叉性女性主義、去殖民化、文化敏感性，以及挑戰結構性不平等的承諾，確保研究能夠有意義地服務於脆弱和邊緣化的群體。
**曼普里特·杜法爾-波提瓦爾博士 (Dr. Manpreet Dhuffar-Pottiwal, BSc, MSc, PhD)**
**英國西部大學**
曼普里特·杜法爾-波提瓦爾博士是一位交叉性女性主義心理學家，致力於南亞散居群體的多樣化經驗。作為MultiGen Zen CIC的創始人，她支持多代家庭應對複雜的文化期望，並通過社區基礎的倡議促進心理健康。曼普里特是英國心理學會（BPS）認證的心理學家、CBT心理治療師，以及正在完成心理諮詢專業博士的實習心理諮詢師。曼普里特還擁有行為成癮的博士學位，並接受過CBT和成癮心理學的研究生培訓。她的臨床專業知識涵蓋代際創傷傳遞、行為成癮以及文化敏感的心理健康干預。
曼普里特在學術環境中為未來的心理健康專業人員提供培訓。作為TEDx演講者，她分享有關社會正義、南亞心理學和社區支持的見解。她的出版物和會議工作探討強迫性性行為、羞恥感和創傷，推進對行為成癮和文化細緻的心理健康護理的理解。
