The Art of Intimacy and the Hidden Challenge of Shame (ePub)

Vick was raised in Baltimore, Maryland by parents with an intense emotional investment in sports of all kinds, especially golf. He attended Williams College, graduating (1966) with honors in chemistry and completed his formal schooling at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (1970.) He was drawn back to the Berkshires, living near Stockbridge, Massachusetts for an internship with special emphasis in psychiatry at the Berkshire Medical Center, where in 1971 he won the award for Excellence in Performance of Duties as an Intern. His great interest in children led to a Fellowship in Child Psychiatry at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic from 1971 to 1973 where he was exposed to the pioneering structural family-based work led by Salvador Minuchin and Jay Haley. He completed his formal training from 1973 to 1975 as a Resident in General Psychiatry at the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital. Dr. Kelly currently maintains a Suburban Philadelphia based full-time private practice in psychiatry with special interest in the enhancement of emotional intimacy in couples and families.

His continued interest in the treatment of children, coupled with his family and general psychiatry training, convinced him that changes in the parental subsystem of a family are the most critical for the well-being of the children. His subsequent work with couples immersed him in the powerful emotional forces driving those relationships. Nothing in his formal training had prepared him to understand the basis of this emotionality. Working with Donald L. Nathanson, M.D. in the early 1980's to explicate the biological and biographical nature of shame, he encountered the work of Professor Silvan S. Tomkins. Amazed at the clarity and rightness of feel of affect script psychology, Dr. Kelly began working directly with Tomkins a year or two before the latter's death in 1991. His goal was to link those theories of motivation to a systematic understanding of interpersonal relatedness, one

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