Jana K. Edwards, LCSW. Shame and Reunions: A New Look at the Compulsion to Repeat. 
Ms. Edwards frames the repetition compulsion in her work with adult partners as a path to healing previously unmetabolized wounds, traumas and losses. In their repetitive conflicts, she sees couples accessing historically dissociated affects. Ms. Shaw illustrates her ideas by focusing on how shame is expressed in a couple’s therapy.