
Peter Shabad, PhD
Trauma, Self-Shaming and Mourning
October 17-18, 2026
1132 S. Wabash Ave., Suite 502, Chicago
& ZOOM
Peter Shabad, PhD is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Northwestern University Medical School. He is on the Teaching and Supervising Faculty of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and he is on the Faculty of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is also Supervising and Training Analyst at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He is an Associate Editor on the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Dr. Shabad is co-editor of The Problem of Loss and Mourning: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (IUP, 1989) and is the author of Despair and the Return of Hope: Echoes of Mourning in Psychotherapy (Aronson, 2001). He is the author of numerous papers and book chapters on diverse topics such as the psychological implications of death, loss and mourning, giving and receiving, shame, parental envy, resentment, and regret. Dr. Shabad’s new book Passion, Shame, and The Freedom To Become: Seizing The Vital Moment In Psychoanalysis (2024) was recently published by Routledge.
Readings:
Dostoevsky, F. (1864). Notes from the underground. In The Best Short Stories of Dostoevsky, (D. Magarshack, Trans). New York: Modern Library.
Freud, S. (1917). Mourning and melancholia. Standard Edition: 243-258.
Rank, O. (1936). Ideological versus dynamic therapy. In Will Therapy, Knopf: 1936.
Shabad, P. (2001). Despair and the Return of Hope: Echoes of Mourning in
Psychotherapy. Northvale, N.J: Jason Aronson.
Shabad, P. (2010). The suffering of passion. Metamorphoses and the embrace of the
stranger. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 20: 710-729.
Shabad, P. (2020). The forward edge of resistance: Toward the dignity of human agency.
Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 30 (1): 51-63.
Shabad, P. (2022) Owing and Being Owed: Shame and Responsibility Toward The
Other, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 32:4, 389-404.
Tolstoy, L. (1886). The death of Ivan Ilych. New York: Signet. 1960.
Winnicott, D.W. (1949). Mind and its relation to the psyche-soma. In Through
Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis. New York: Basic Books. 1975.