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Damnation and Deviance The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Failure

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ISBN-10: 0029274907

ISBN-13: 9780029274903

Edition: N/A

Authors: Mordechai Rotenberg

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List price: $14.95
Publisher: Free Press
Binding: Hardcover
Weight: 0.154
Language: English

Introduction to the Transaction Edition
Foreword
The Protestant Ethic vs. the "People-Changing" Professions
Metaphors of Deviance in Historical Perspective
Predestination and the Success-Failure Paradigm
Rationalism and Dualism in Criminology
Predestinal Dualism and Psychotherapy
Puritan Damnation and Deviance: A Socio-Historical Case Study
Predestinal Dualism and Religious Deviation
Predestinal Dualism and Secular Deviance
Predestinal Free Will and Deviance
Conclusion
"Differential Insensitivity" and the Myth of the "Psychopath"
Diagnostic Labeling for Nontreatment
Who Is the "Empirical Psychopath"?
Psychopathy, Neurosis, and "Differential Insensitivity"
Desensitization Systems for Functional Insensitivity
Research Implications of Dysfunctional Insensitivities
Assessing Sociophysiological Insensitivities
"Differential Insensitivity" and Desensitization: A Pilot Study
Sensitization of Dysfunctional Insensitivities
The "Excitement - Boredom" (Pleasure - Pain) Principle
Conclusion
The Antilabeling Crusade and Self-labeling
Labeling Analysis and the Antilabeling Crusade
The Roots of Self-labeling
Social Darwinism and Labeling Theory
Conclusion
Empirical Explorations of Indicative Labeling
Indicative Social Labeling: Americans and Israelis
Indicative Self-Labeling: Mental Patients
Conclusion
"Contingent Being" and the "Action-Reaction" Convergence Model
Primary and Secondary Roles
Primary and Secondary Labeling
Primary and Secondary Others
Primary and Secondary Involvement
Prison Social Types and Contingent Being
Assessment of Social-Self Type Congruity
Interrelationships Between the Labeling and Opportunity Perspectives
Constructive Labeling: A Perspective for Treatment
"Alienating Individualism" and "Reciprocal Individualism"
The Roots of "Alienating Individualism"
"Amae": The Challenge of Desirable Dependency
"Amae" and the Revolt of Existential Groups
The Nature of "Reciprocal Individualism"
Assessing Protestantism, Egocentrism, and Loneliness
Conclusion
Retrospective vs. Prospective Therapy: An Encounter Between the Protestant and Hassidic Salvation Ethics
"Retrospective Therapy"
The Protestant Conception of Conscience
Self-torturing Phases in Conversion
The "Psychologization" of Conversion
"Prospective Therapy"
Holistic vs. Dualistic Conceptions of Evil
The Hassidic Doctrine of Sparks
The Transformation of Seeming "Evil"
Redemption by Descending to the Other
Alien Thoughts and Repression
The Prohibition of Retrospective Self-torture
The "Feather Blanket" Principle for Producing Energizing Joy
Conclusion and Summary
The Egoistic/Collectivistic (E/C-nAch) Questionnaire
Bibliography
Index