General Description:

A trenchant analysis of modern physchology—an enterprise that Paul Vitz maintains has become a religion, a secular cult of self, now part of the problem of modern life rather than part of its resolution. Virtually rewritten, this second edition of the original 1977 text takes into account much of what has happened in the field of psychology during the past seventeen years. Two completely new chapters are also included—one on education and "values clarification" and the other on New Age religion. By Dr. Paul C. Vitz.

Paul C. Vitz, Ph.D. (Stanford University, 1962), is Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, New York University and Adjunct Professor, John Paul 11 Institute for Marriage and Family, Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars and is in active contact with many Evangelical Protestants, e.g., Inter Varsity, and several seriously committed Jews. Besides, his interest in how things religious relate to psychology, he is also involved in the general topic of psychology and art.

The Table of Contents

1. The Major Theorists

   Carl Jung
   Erich Fromm
   Carl Rogers
   Abraham Maslow
   Rollo May and Existential Philosophy

2. Self-Theory for Everybody

   Self-Esteem
   The Self-Serving Bias
   Encounter Groups
   Recovery Groups
   Self-Helpers
   est and Forum
   Self-Help Sex

3. Selfism as Bad Science

   Psychiatry, Biology, and Experimental Psychology
   Are We Intrinsically All That Good?

4. From a Philosophical Point of View

   A Question of Definitions
   The Empty Self
   A Basic Contradiction
   Browning's Critique
   Ethical and Scientific Misrepresentations

5. Selfism and the Family

   The Isolated Individual
   Self-Theory and Divorce
   Parents as the Source of Our Troubles
   Christianity and the Family

6. 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

7. 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

8. Selfism and Christianity: Historical Antecedents

   Feuerbach
   American Sources
   Fosdick and Peale
   Pietism
   The Special Case of Carl Rogers

9. 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

10. 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

11. A Political Response

    The Problem for Psychology
    The Problem for Christianity

12. Beyond the Secular Self

    The Bias in Being "Objective"
    The Object's Revenge
    The Dilemma of Existential Narcissism
    Escape from the Self

13. A New Christian Future?

    The End of Modern Heroism
    The Failure of Careerism
    The Tribalist Temptation
    The Emerging Opportunity

    Index

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