TY - BOOK A1 - Fleischman, Paul R. T1 - The healing zone: Religious issues in psychotherapy, New York (Paragon House Publishers) 1989, 288 p.; esp. pp. 98-119. N2 - Carl Goldberg asks how malevolent transformation of personality takes place. In-spired by Fromm's work on the origin of destructiveness, Goldberg builds on Fromm's observation that an evil character tends to develop gradually by a succes-sion of innumerable acts of inhumanity that are often rationalized and dismissed. Goldberg has found that the road that leads to sadism and cruelty is often paved by a history of shame and humiliation. Goldberg proposes stages of the sequential transformations of shame, humiliation, and rage that eventually lead to malevo-lence. He illustrates the theory with a very interesting case study. Goldberg's stages provide the basis for rich clinical exploration that could lead to a research agenda into the various possible pathways for the development of the malevolent personal-ity. Y1 - 1989 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-Fromm/frontdoor/index/index/docId/24761 ER -