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