內 容 註 | 1. Four major theorists : Erich Fromm ; Carl Rogers ; Abraham Maslow ; Rollo May -- 2. Self-theory for everybody : Encounter groups ; Self-helpers ; est ; 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 ; A basic contradiction ; Ethical and scientific misrepresentations -- 5. Selfism and today's society : A creed for the youth culture ;
Selfism and language ; Psychology for a consumer society -- 6. Selfism and Christianity: historical antecedents : Feuerbach ; Fosdick and Peale ; Pietism ; The special case of Carl Rogers -- 7. Selfism and the family : The isolated individual ; Parents as the source of our troubles -- 8. A Christian critique : Selfism as idolatry ; Christian love and selfist love ; Creativity and the Creator ; The nature of suffering -- 9. Christian politics : The problem for psychology ; The problem for
Christianity -- 10. Beyond the secular self : The bias in being "objective" ; The object's revenge ; The dilemma of existential narcissism ; Escape from the self -- 11. A new Christian future? : The end of modern heroism ; The coming failure of careerism ; The emerging opportunity |