The Significance of High Value in Human Behaviour: Speech of the Suffering Soul

ISBN-13: 9780367660857 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 200 str.

Chris Steed

Opis

The Significance of High Value in Human Behaviour is an innovative conceptualisation of how the quest for a high self-worth works as a psycho-social dynamic, presenting the idea that feelings of impotence and low self-esteem induce a powerful impetus on negative human action.

Spis treści

Setting the scene – the psychopathology of everyday life

Part 1: Arenas of anxiety

Chapter 1: Companion

Chapter 2: Comparison: "go compare": social media and social toxins

Chapter 3: Competition: tales of humiliation

Chapter 4: Compensation: violence, transfer and scapegoats

Part 2: Notes on a theory of value

Chapter 5: A discourse on method and the dog that didn’t bark

Chapter 6: Re-setting the personality drivers

Chapter 7: Markers of devaluation: difference and Indifference

Chapter 8: Dignity, indignity and the anger of a valuable self

Chapter 9: The relational turn: self-esteem and self-actualisation

Chapter 10: Like a sailboat in the harbour: collision and collusion

Chapter 1: Through the life course

Part 3: A positive psychology

Chapter 12: Transformative change and positive places

Postscript: what is it that Protests?

O autorze

Chris Steed is a trained counsellor and Anglican priest who combines the experience of counselling psychotherapist practice and post-doctoral research where he developed the distinctive approach in this book. He is a member of the British Association of Psychotherapy and Counselling and the American Psychological Association, and is the author of Smart Leadership – Wise Leadership: Environments of Value in an Emerging Future (2017) and We Count, We Matter: Voice, Choice and the Death of Distance (2018).