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The Major Theorists | p. 1 |
Carl Jung | p. 2 |
Erich Fromm | p. 4 |
Carl Rogers | p. 7 |
Abraham Maslow | p. 10 |
Rollo May and Existential Philosophy | p. 11 |
Self-Theory for Everybody | p. 15 |
Self-Esteem | p. 15 |
The Self-Serving Bias | p. 20 |
Encounter Groups | p. 22 |
Recovery Groups | p. 24 |
Self-Helpers | p. 25 |
est and Forum | p. 26 |
Self-Help Sex | p. 28 |
Selfism as Bad Science | p. 32 |
Psychiatry, Biology, and Experimental Psychology | p. 33 |
Are We Intrinsically All That Good? | p. 42 |
From a Philosophical Point of View | p. 47 |
A Question of Definitions | p. 47 |
The Empty Self | p. 49 |
A Basic Contradiction | p. 51 |
Browning's Critique | p. 54 |
Ethical and Scientific Misrepresentations | p. 55 |
Selfism and the Family | p. 57 |
The Isolated Individual | p. 57 |
Self-Theory and Divorce | p. 59 |
Parents as the Source of Our Troubles | p. 60 |
Christianity and the Family | p. 65 |
Self-Theory and the Schools | p. 68 |
Values Clarification | p. 68 |
Self-Theory Again | p. 70 |
A Philosophical Critique | p. 72 |
A Critique of Procedures and Strategies | p. 74 |
Research Evaluating Values Clarification | p. 76 |
A Violation of Privacy Critique | p. 78 |
Why Has Values Clarification Been So Popular? | p. 81 |
Conclusion: Why Values Clarification Must Be Rejected | p. 82 |
Selfism and Today's Society | p. 84 |
A Creed for the Youth and Yuppie Culture | p. 84 |
A Nation of Victims | p. 85 |
Selfism and Language | p. 87 |
Psychology for a Consumer Society | p. 89 |
Selfism and Christianity: Historical Antecedents | p. 95 |
Feuerbach | p. 95 |
American Sources | p. 97 |
Fosdick and Peale | p. 99 |
Pietism | p. 103 |
The Special Case of Carl Rogers | p. 105 |
Psychology and the New Age Movement | p. 111 |
Social and Economic Support for New Age | p. 115 |
Psychological Origins of New Age | p. 117 |
New Age as a New Gnosticism | p. 121 |
New Age Spirituality: From Psychological to Spiritual Self-Worship | p. 123 |
A Christian Critique | p. 126 |
Selfism as Idolatry | p. 126 |
The Problem of Depression | p. 130 |
The Problem of the Human Doormat | p. 131 |
Christian Love and Selfist Love | p. 132 |
Creativity and the Creator | p. 138 |
The Nature of Suffering | p. 139 |
A Political Response | p. 142 |
The Problem for Psychology | p. 142 |
The Problem for Christianity | p. 144 |
Beyond the Secular Self | p. 151 |
The Bias in Being "Objective" | p. 151 |
The Object's Revenge | p. 154 |
The Dilemma of Existential Narcissism | p. 155 |
Escape from the Self | p. 158 |
A New Christian Future? | p. 163 |
The End of Modern Heroism | p. 163 |
The Failure of Careerism | p. 164 |
The Tribalist Temptation | p. 166 |
The Emerging Opportunity | p. 167 |
Index | p. 169 |
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