Read more
Zusatztext "The Curse of the Self is a thinking person's self-help book! not in the trivial! superficial sense in which the term 'self-help book' is usually used! but in the sense of being both intellectually stimulating and offering useful! practical advice and insights." -Lee Jussim! Department of Psychology! Rutgers University Informationen zum Autor Mark R. Leary is Professor of Psychology at Duke University. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and former president of the International Society for Self and Identity. He was named by the Institute for Scientific Information as among the 25 most productive scholars in psychology (1986-1990). Klappentext Although the capacity for self-awareness is an essential aspect of human nature, self-reflection comes at a high price. Self-awareness and its accompanying egotism profoundly affect people's lives, interfering with their success, polluting their relationships with other people, and undermining their happiness. Drawing from work in psychology and other behavioural sciences, in The Curse of the Self, Mark Leary explores personal and social problems that are created by the human capacity for self-reflection and offers insights regarding how these problems may be minimised. Zusammenfassung Despite its obvious advantages, our ability to be self-reflective comes at a high price. Few people realise how profoundly their lives are affected by self-reflection or how frequently inner chatter interferes with their success, pollutes their relationships with others, and undermines their happiness. By allowing people to ruminate about the past or imagine what might happen in the future, self-reflection conjures up a great deal of personal suffering in the form of depression, anxiety, anger, jealousy, and other negative emotions. A great deal of unhappiness, in the form of addictions, overeating, and domestic violence, is due to people's inability to exert control over their thoughts and behaviour. Is it possible to direct our self-reflection in a way that will minimise the disadvantages and maximise the advantages? Is there a way to affect the egotistical self through self-reflection? In this volume, Mark Leary explores the personal and social problems that are created by the capacity for self-reflection, and by drawing upon psychology and other behavioral sciences, offers insights into how these problems can be minimised. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: The Self-Aware Animal 2: Living in Two Worlds 3: Through the Eyes of the Ego 4: Making Ourselves Miserable 5: When Selves Collide 6: Risking Life and Limb 7: Religion and Morality 8: The Self Out of Control 9: Bringing Out the Best in the Self ...
