Table of Contents
About This Book
- The Major Theorists
Carl Jung
Erich Fromm
Carl Rogers
Abraham Maslow
Rollo May and Existential Philosophy
- Self-Theory for Everybody
Self-Esteem
The Self-Serving Bias
Encounter Groups
Recovery Groups
Self-Helpers
est and Forum
Self-Help Sex
- Selfism as Bad Science
Psychiatry, Biology, and Experimental Psychology
Are We Intrinsically All That Good?
- From a Philosophical Point of View
A Question of Definitions
The Empty Self
A Basic Contradiction
Browning's Critique
Ethical and Scientific Misrepresentations
- Selfism and the Family
The Isolated Individual
Self-Theory and Divorce
Parents as the Source of Our Troubles
Christianity and the Family
- Self-Theory and the Schools
Values Clarification
Self Theory Again
A Philosophical Critique
A Critique of Procedures and Strategies
Research Evaluating Values Clarification
A Violation of Privacy Critique
Why Has Values Clarification Been So Popular?
Conclusion: Why Values Clarification Must Be Rejected
- Selfism and Today's Society
A Creed for the Youth and Yuppie Culture
A Nation of Victims
Selfism and Language
Psychology for a Consumer Society
- Selfism and Christianity: Historical Antecedents
Feuerbach
American Sources
Fosdick and Peale
Pietism
The Special Case of Carl Rogers
- Psychology and the New Age Movement
Social and Economic Support for New Age
Psychological Origins of New Age
New Age as a New Gnosticism
New Age Spirituality: From Psychological to Spiritual
Self-Worship
- A Christian Critique
Selfism as Idolatry
The Problem of Depression
The Problem of the Human Doormat
Christian Love and Selfist Love
Creativity and the Creator
The Nature of Suffering
- A Political Response
The Problem for Psychology
The Problem for Christianity
- Beyond the Secular Self
The Bias in Being "Objective"
The Object's Revenge
The Dilemma of Existential Narcissism
Escape from the Self
- A New Christian Future?
The End of Modern Heroism
The Failure of Careerism
The Tribalist Temptation
The Emerging Opportunity
Index
