The Independent - London, October 28th, 1996
Gazza, we are told, is talking to a psychotherapist to "work on the shame and the guilt" following his wife-beating episode. Meanwhile, it seems that lurking behind the joy of the reunion between Clare Short and her son Toby, is the shame that she and the father felt at giving him away in the first place.
We are all confused about shame. On the one hand it is a rather old-fashioned emotion - shame is the last thing therapists want their clients to feel, and few people believe that sex should be wrapped in shame, the way it used to be. On the other hand there is a widespread feeling that our c...
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