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(BQ) Part 2 book “Social psychological foundations of clinical psychology” has contents: Social cognitive vulnerability to depression and anxiety, the social psychology of clinical judgment, the social psychology of clinical judgment of psychological disorders, interpersonal assessment and treatment of personality disorders, and other contents. | 14 Emotions of the Imperiled Ego Shame, Guilt, Jealousy, and Envy June Price Tangney Peter Salovey I n recent years investigators working at the interface of social and clinical psychology have delved into a range of clinically relevant emotions. This chapter focuses on developments in the scientific study of four negatively valenced emotions—two “selfconscious” emotions (shame and guilt) and two “social-comparative” emotions (jealousy and envy), with a special emphasis on the clinical implications of this work. To be sure, social psychologists have conducted vital work on other clinically relevant emotions— most notably anger, fear, joy, and sadness are the emotions most commonly induced in laboratory experiments investigating the influence of feeling states on other psychological processes. However, we have selected shame, guilt, jealousy, and envy as the focus of this chapter for three reasons. First, these emotions are often encountered in clinical settings. Not infrequently, clients enter therapy seeking relief from troubling excesses of shame, guilt, jealousy, and/or envy. Second, until recently these emotions have received relatively little empirical attention from researchers in the field of emotion research. Much of the initial research on emotion focused on so called “basic” emotions that emerge early in life and that are readily identified by unique facial expressions (thus circumventing the need to rely solely on self-report of internal phenomena). Third, shame, guilt, jealousy, and envy are of special interest to both social and clinical psychologists because they are, above all, “self-” or “ego-relevant” emotions. At issue, in each case, is some threat to the self. 245 246   PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS Are Shame, Guilt, Jealousy, and Envy “Problematic” Emotions? Some years ago we wrote a similar chapter entitled “Shame, Guilt, Jealousy, and Envy: Problematic Emotions” (Tangney & Salovey, 1999). In retrospect, we think we .