Is Humiliation a Tool for Healing or Growth?

Some spiritual traditions have tried to utilize humiliation as an as an ego transcending activity in general. If you're doing broad passes of humiliation across your cell system and you recognize that that's not actually what's happening but you can't control your response to it, "that's a really clear marker for healing or growth right" I think learning how to hear another's words and be able to separate what an actual like negative criticism is from actual constructive feedback are two very different things. There isn't a way to actually humiliate somebody in a way where you're going to miss a message that you need to hear from another person when they're humiliating you. It does put me on edge a bit