The Psychology of Self-Esteem

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Page iii The Psychology of Self-Esteem A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Understanding That Launched a New Era in Modern Psycholo ...

Page iv Copyright © 1969 by Nathaniel Branden, Preface to the 32nd Anniversary Edition and Epilogue copyright © 2001 by Nathanie ...

Page v CONTENTS Preface to the 32nd Anniversary Edition vii Part One: The Foundations Introduction xi Psychology as a Science ...

Page vii PREFACE TO THE 32ND ANNIVERSARY EDITION I wrote this book during the 1960s and it was published in 1969. It is a source ...

Page viii "Working with Self-Esteem in Psychotherapy." A single essay cannot retrace all the steps involved in my evolving and e ...

Page ix The best analogy I can think of is to physical fitness—getting in shape. Others can encourage us or teach us principles ...

Page xi INTRODUCTION In his quest to understand the universe in which he lives, man is confronted with three fundamental facts o ...

Page xii failed to provide man with the self-knowledge he needs. So I will simply say that such is my conviction—and that my rea ...

Page xiii self-responsibility; the nature and source of emotions, the relationship of reason and emotion, the problem of emotion ...

PART ONE— THE FOUNDATIONS ...

Chapter One— 1. Psychology as a Science The Definition of Psychology There are two questions which every human being—with rare e ...

when one considers the views of man and the theories of his nature that have been put forth as knowledge in the past hundred yea ...

sleepless night, then through the days and weeks that follow, the sense of impending disaster persists: the dread invades him, a ...

awareness—from the complex mode of cognition possible to man, to the far more limited range of awareness possible to a frog. The ...

this holds the key to understanding man behaviorally, motivationally, and characterologically. Man's defining attribute, which d ...

"Consciousness" denotes both a faculty and a state. As a faculty, "consciousness" means: the attribute of certain living organis ...

That mental processes are correlated with neural processes in the brain, in no way affects the status of consciousness as a uniq ...

Movements have direction; would there be any sense in talking of the north-easterly direction of one's thought on the morality o ...