Averting Global Extinction

Our Irrational Society as Therapy Patient

von Louis S. Berger

142 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Humanity's self-destructive failure to give global and human survival top priority is complex, puzzling, and irrational. Berger conceptualizes it as analogous to manifestations of individuals' psychopathology. He devises a 'sociocultural therapy' patterned after an individual psychotherapy framework, the so-called analysis of defense and designed to supplement the standard approaches to global threats. The new and valuable principal contributions are: identifying our failures with societal pathology; focusing on the latter's defenses; conceptualizing a therapeutic analogue applicable at the social level; and constructing a prototypical example of that therapy.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychische Störungen
• ISBN: 9780765706522
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 11.06.2009
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Jason Aronson, Inc.