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Book Synopsis The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times by : Christopher Lasch
Download or read book The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times written by Christopher Lasch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1985-10-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Even more valuable than its widely praised predecessor, The Culture of Narcissism." —John W. Aldridge Faced with an escalating arms race, rising crime and terrorism, environmental deterioration, and long-term economic decline, people have retreated from commitments that presuppose a secure and orderly world. In his latest book, Christopher Lasch, the renowned historian and social critic, powerfully argues that self-concern, so characteristic of our time, has become a search for psychic survival.
Book Synopsis The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times by : Christopher Lasch
Download or read book The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times written by Christopher Lasch and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1985-10-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Even more valuable than its widely praised predecessor, The Culture of Narcissism." —John W. Aldridge Faced with an escalating arms race, rising crime and terrorism, environmental deterioration, and long-term economic decline, people have retreated from commitments that presuppose a secure and orderly world. In his latest book, Christopher Lasch, the renowned historian and social critic, powerfully argues that self-concern, so characteristic of our time, has become a search for psychic survival.
Book Synopsis World of Nations by : Christopher Lasch
Download or read book World of Nations written by Christopher Lasch and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of nations is the world men have made, in contrast to the world of nature. Seeking to understand the civil society Americans have made, Christopher Lasch, author of The Agony of the American Left, reexamines the liberal and radical traditions in the United States and the limitations of both, along the way challenging a number of accepted interpretations of American history.
Book Synopsis Haven in a Heartless World by : Christopher Lasch
Download or read book Haven in a Heartless World written by Christopher Lasch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published: New York : Basic Books, 1977. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Book Synopsis Self-Help for At-Risk Teens by : Ben Povlow
Download or read book Self-Help for At-Risk Teens written by Ben Povlow and published by The Self-Help Company, LLC.. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is messy, but the mess doesn’t define you. Keep reading to find out how to turn your life around… Self-Help for At-Risk Teens is written from the perspective of someone who has been there. Through his words, the hard lessons he learned from watching his life spiral out of control, and with a no-nonsense approach, you will learn how to overcome the odds and live the life you were always meant to live. Follow my story as I navigate a life that began under unfortunate circumstances and continued down that rocky road until I didn’t know who I was or why I did what I did. A stint in a juvenile program didn’t help me change my ways. Instead, I found solace in all the wrong places while doing all the wrong things. My story is the story of so many young people in the world. Although the names and places may be different, the poor decision-making skills, negativity, self-hatred, loathing, and everything that followed are universal to those who don’t yet know how to channel their pain. Thankfully, after narrowly escaping the worst possible outcome, I found my way out of the hopelessness and despair. In this self-help guide, I share what helped me in the hopes it will help you as you heal and grow. Inside, you’ll discover: · What’s putting you at risk · How anger affects you · How to adapt to your living situation · The dangers of drugs and alcohol · Self-development strategies · And more! If you’re ready to see lasting changes and live the life of your dreams, this book is the perfect tool to help you get there. Scroll up and click “Buy Now” to read it today!
Book Synopsis The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations by : Christopher Lasch
Download or read book The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations written by Christopher Lasch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic New York Times bestseller, with a new introduction by E.J. Dionne Jr. When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a “biblical prophet” (Time). Lasch’s identification of narcissism as not only an individual ailment but also a burgeoning social epidemic was groundbreaking. His diagnosis of American culture is even more relevant today, predicting the limitless expansion of the anxious and grasping narcissistic self into every part of American life. The Culture of Narcissism offers an astute and urgent analysis of what we need to know in these troubled times.
Download or read book Psychic Vampires written by Joe H. Slate and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consuming energy instead of blood, psychic vampires come in a variety of unsuspecting guises. This unique approach to the subject will introduce you to a trio of new thieves: group vampires, parasitic vampires, and global vampirism. Exploring environmental, developmental, and past-life factors, Psychic Vampires presents effective step-by-step empowerment procedures you can use to protect yourself and replenish your energy reserves. This practical guide offers: An exploration of previously unknown forms of psychic vampirism Methods to identify and counteract the effects of psychic attacks Thirteen photos illustrating the "Vampire Shadow Phenomenon," the "Halo Effect," and more A Seven-Day Psychic Protection Plan
Book Synopsis Extraordinary Psychic by : Debra Lynne Katz
Download or read book Extraordinary Psychic written by Debra Lynne Katz and published by Living Dreams Press. This book was released on 2015-04-05 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take Your Psychic Abilities from Ordinary to Extraordinary! Find out just how easy it is to use your innate psychic abilities to access insightful and helpful information about anything! Whether you're a beginner exploring your psychic abilities or a professional fine-tuning your skills, this warm and practical guide offers proven techniques, true personal stories, and a wealth of fun exercises so that you can quickly experience successful clairvoyant readings for yourself. Professional psychic Debra Lynne Katz, author of the popular introductory guide You Are Psychic, offers clear and engaging instruction on developing your natural intuitive gifts of clairvoyance, clairsentience, clairaudience, and telepathy. She demonstrates how these skills can be used with clients on a professional level or in real-life settings, such as your home or workplace--even in your own relationships. Become the intuitive, extraordinary psychic you truly are Heal yourself and othersView the past, present, and future* Manifest goals for peace, prosperity, and loveUnderstand the difference between clairvoyant reading and Remote Viewing Communicate with your spirit guides and loved ones in spirit Learn how to perform psychic readings professionally or just for fun "Extraordinary Psychic is written in great depth and detail through the author's many years of experience and training. All of Katz's techniques are clear as quartz--and the best thing is that they work!" --New Age Retailer, Holiday Issue 2008
Book Synopsis The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics by : Christopher Lasch
Download or read book The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics written by Christopher Lasch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1991-09-17 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the anti-progressive, populist tradition of democracy in nineteenth and early twentieth-century movements by artisans and farmers as well as in major thinkers.
Book Synopsis A Passion for Christ by : Douglas D. Webster
Download or read book A Passion for Christ written by Douglas D. Webster and published by Regent College Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this excellent work on Christology, Douglas Webster demonstrates what can be done when one takes evangelical theology from a purely defensive stance to a creative, honest, and forward-looking criticism of modern theologies. His biblical seriousness and his pastoral concern make the book readable, stimulating, and edifying.
Download or read book The Depleted Self written by Donald Capps and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although narcissism may appear dormant in the 1990s, clinical research on narcissism shows that behind a grandiose, exhibitionistic side lies a shame-ridden half of self-loathing, unworthiness, and depression. Capps says that traditional theologies of guilt are unable to address those gripped by shame and makes a case for a different pastoral approach in counseling and ministry.
Book Synopsis The Americanization of Narcissism by : Elizabeth Lunbeck
Download or read book The Americanization of Narcissism written by Elizabeth Lunbeck and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American social critics in the 1970s, convinced that their nation was in decline, turned to psychoanalysis for answers and seized on narcissism as the sickness of the age. Books indicting Americans as greedy, shallow, and self-indulgent appeared, none more influential than Christopher Lasch’s famous 1978 jeremiad The Culture of Narcissism. This line of critique reached a crescendo the following year in Jimmy Carter’s “malaise speech” and has endured to this day. But as Elizabeth Lunbeck reveals, the American critics missed altogether the breakthrough in psychoanalytic thinking that was championing narcissism’s positive aspects. Psychoanalysts had clashed over narcissism from the moment Freud introduced it in 1914, and they had long been split on its defining aspects: How much self-love, self-esteem, and self-indulgence was normal and desirable? While Freud’s orthodox followers sided with asceticism, analytic dissenters argued for gratification. Fifty years later, the Viennese émigré Heinz Kohut led a psychoanalytic revolution centered on a “normal narcissism” that he claimed was the wellspring of human ambition, creativity, and empathy. But critics saw only pathology in narcissism. The result was the loss of a vital way to understand ourselves, our needs, and our desires. Narcissism’s rich and complex history is also the history of the shifting fortunes and powerful influence of psychoanalysis in American thought and culture. Telling this story, The Americanization of Narcissism ultimately opens a new view on the central questions faced by the self struggling amid the tumultuous crosscurrents of modernity.
Book Synopsis Reluctant Witnesses by : Arlene Stein
Download or read book Reluctant Witnesses written by Arlene Stein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans now learn about the Holocaust in high school, watch films about it on television, and visit museums dedicated to preserving its memory. But for the first two decades following the end of World War II, discussion of the destruction of European Jewry was largely absent from American culture and the tragedy of the Holocaust was generally seen as irrelevant to non-Jewish Americans. Today, the Holocaust is widely recognized as a universal moral touchstone. In Reluctant Witnesses, sociologist Arlene Stein--herself the daughter of a Holocaust survivor--mixes memoir, history, and sociological analysis to tell the story of the rise of Holocaust consciousness in the United States from the perspective of survivors and their descendants. If survivors tended to see Holocaust storytelling as mainly a private affair, their children--who reached adulthood during the heyday of identity politics--reclaimed their hidden family histories and transformed them into public stories. Reluctant Witnesses documents how a group of people who had previously been unrecognized and misunderstood managed to find its voice. It tells this story in relation to the changing status of trauma and victimhood in American culture. At a time when a sense of Holocaust fatigue seems to be setting in and when the remaining survivors are at the end of their lives, it affirms that confronting traumatic memories and catastrophic histories can help us make our world mean something beyond ourselves.
Book Synopsis Individualism And Community by : Michael Peters
Download or read book Individualism And Community written by Michael Peters and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining, in the widest sense, the changes in political philosophy that have occurred in Western capitalist states since the early 1980s, this book focuses on the introduction of neo-liberal principles in the combined area of social and education policy. New Zealand presents a paradigm example of the neo-liberal shift in political philosophy. From constituting the social laboratory of the Western world in the 1930s in terms of social welfare provision, New Zealand has become the neo-liberal experiment of the fully marketised society in the 1990s. Against the theoretical background of educational theory and practice, this book examines neo-liberalism and its critiques as responses to the so-called crisis of the welfare state and argues for a reformulated critical social policy in the postmodern condition. The conclusions about social policy drawn by the authors can be generalized to similar situations in other Western capitalist countries.
Book Synopsis Chic Ironic Bitterness by : R. Jay Magill
Download or read book Chic Ironic Bitterness written by R. Jay Magill and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-12-18 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant and timely reflection on irony in contemporary American culture “This book is a powerful and persuasive defense of sophisticated irony and subtle humor that contributes to the possibility of a genuine civic trust and democratic life. R. Jay Magill deserves our congratulations for a superb job!” —Cornel West, University Professor, Princeton University “A well-written, well-argued assessment of the importance of irony in contemporary American social life, along with the nature of recent misguided attacks and, happily, a deep conviction that irony is too important in our lives to succumb. The book reflects wide reading, varied experience, and real analytical prowess.” —Peter Stearns, Provost, George Mason University “Somehow, Americans—a pragmatic and colloquial lot, for the most part—are now supposed to speak the Word, without ironic embellishment, in order to rebuild the civic culture. So irony’s critics decide it has become ‘worthy of moral condemnation.’ Magill pushes back against this new conventional wisdom, eloquently defending a much livelier American sensibility than the many apologists for a somber ‘civic culture’ could ever acknowledge." —William Chaloupka, Chair and Professor, Department of Political Science, Colorado State University The events of 9/11 had many pundits on the left and right scrambling to declare an end to the Age of Irony. But six years on, we're as ironic as ever. From The Simpsons and Borat to The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, the ironic worldview measures out a certain cosmopolitan distance, keeping hypocrisy and threats to personal integrity at bay. Chic Ironic Bitterness is a defense of this detachment, an attitude that helps us preserve values such as authenticity, sincerity, and seriousness that might otherwise be lost in a world filled with spin, marketing, and jargon. And it is an effective counterweight to the prevailing conservative view that irony is the first step toward cynicism and the breakdown of Western culture. R. Jay Magill, Jr., is a writer and illustrator whose work has appeared in American Prospect, American Interest, Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Policy, International Herald Tribune, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Print, amongother periodicals and books. A former Harvard Teaching Fellow and Executive Editor of DoubleTake, he holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Hamburg in Germany. This is his first book.
Download or read book After Freud Left written by John Burnham and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From August 29 to September 21, 1909, Sigmund Freud visited the United States, where he gave five lectures at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. This volume brings together a stunning gallery of leading historians of psychoanalysis and of American culture to consider the broad history of psychoanalysis in America and to reflect on what has happened to Freud’s legacy in the United States in the century since his visit. There has been a flood of recent scholarship on Freud’s life and on the European and world history of psychoanalysis, but historians have produced relatively little on the proliferation of psychoanalytic thinking in the United States, where Freud’s work had monumental intellectual and social impact. The essays in After Freud Left provide readers with insights and perspectives to help them understand the uniqueness of Americans’ psychoanalytic thinking, as well as the forms in which the legacy of Freud remains active in the United States in the twenty-first century. After Freud Left will be essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century American history, general intellectual and cultural history, and psychology and psychiatry.
Book Synopsis Figures in the Carpet by : Wilfred M. McClay
Download or read book Figures in the Carpet written by Wilfred M. McClay and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-02 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figures in the Carpet presents a stellar roster of first-rate historians dealing seriously with a perennially important subject. The case studies and more theoretical accounts in this book amount to an unusually perceptive assessment of how "the person' has been viewed in American history.
