Shame Dick Gregory Summary

The Psychological Effects of Shaming Shame itself comes in many forms and typically, people tend to associate shame with being humiliated about one’s self or a particular situation one finds themselves in. For example, Dick Gregory writes in his essay Shame, “I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.” He tells the reader about how he was publically shamed by his teacher in class because he didn’t have father at home. While shaming can be useful, it can also have a very negative after affect. However, amongst the magnitude of diverse connotations, there is one method of shame that a lot of people don’t talk about; Child Rearing.
Child rearing became popular as early as Ancient Rome, where it was common for the father to discipline his children as severely as he wished. In some cases, the father could even kill his children if he pleased. The concept of child-rearing was to raise a child from birth to adulthood to be the society’s ideal image of ‘perfection.’ Anything short of this would result in punishments that would …show more content…
Going back to Hitler, soon after documents were recovered and released to the public about his use of drugs, National Geographic aired Nazi Underworld – Hitler’s Drug Use Revealed. Nassier Ghalhi, a professor of psychiatrics, claimed that the abuse of drugs that Hitler consumed, exacerbated his manic depression, reducing him to a mere unstable figure. (National geographic) Morell, his personal physician, also documented that along with his paranoia, hypochondria, Bi-polar disorder and anxiety – Hitler also suffered from sexual inhibition to his phobia of diseases. Because he was raised with child-rearing, he had also been diagnosed with syndromes dealing with pain and a disability in the absence of physical abnormalities. Such as chronic pain syndromes, fibromyalgia, fatigue and irritable bowel