TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vitz,Paul C.
TI  - Psychology as religion: the cult of self-worship 
SN  - 0802807259 (pbk.)
AV  - BF51 .V58 1994
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Grand Rapids, Mich., Carlisle, UK
PB  - W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., Paternoster Press
KW  - Psychology and religion
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Self-worship
KW  - Controversial literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
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