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Children like to put their hands over their eyes and shout “Yuck!” When two adults kiss.

Teenagers are red in the face or want to sink into the ground if they have allegedly embarrassed themselves.

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Foreign shame, self-shame: what is that actually good for?

And why does our sense of shame change in the course of life?

Michael Schulte-Markwort is a specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy and a supervisor.

In an interview, he analyzes “embarrassing examples” from children between the ages of six and 16 for us and explains how a “healthy” sense of shame can develop.

Michael Schulte-Markwort is a child and youth psychiatrist

Source: picture alliance / dpa

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Prof. Dr.

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Schulte-Markwort headed the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the UKE and Altona Children's Hospital for many years.

Today he works as the scientific director of the Marzipan Factory Specialist Clinic and runs his own Paidion practice.

More about shame and the psyche of children and adolescents:

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“Embarrassing - doesn't exist”

is the podcast that breaks body taboos.

Compulsions, buttocks hygiene, pain during sex - these are topics that hardly anyone likes to talk about openly.

Knowledge editor Clara Ott wants to change that.

In her podcast “Embarrassing - doesn't exist” she asks experts, doctors and psychologists the questions that many do not dare to ask.

Because silence is often worse than shame.

Embarrassing questions that Clara Ott should ask experts in the podcast are welcome to clara.ott@welt.de.

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This article was first published in December 2020.