The Psychology of Self-Esteem

unrecognized contradiction to it—depending on such factors as how rational he is, how conceptually reflective about his own life ...

entailed by possible errors, and/or by passing to others the responsibility he dreads, living off their thoughts, their judgment ...

person may identify the fact that irrationality is wrong, that it represents an aberration, a departure from reality. Or he may ...

A person's sense of life is of crucial importance in the formation of his basic values, since all value-choices rest on an impli ...

extremely limited; one would sense that the basic frame of reference of the other person, the basic context from which one is be ...

grounds of his romantic feeling for another human being, the questions to ask and answer are: What does this relationship make m ...

Chapter Twelve— 12. Psychotherapy Thinking and Psychotherapy Psychotherapy is the treatment of mental disorders by psychological ...

nature and conditions of healthy self-esteem, about the cause of pathological anxiety, about the relationships among anxiety, de ...

passivity and resignation, on the premise of "I can't help it." Men can't help it—if they are taught and if they accept a view o ...

For example, a patient may know, abstractly, that emotions are not tools of cognition, are not criteria of truth or falsehood, r ...

new psycho-epistemological errors. For example, the anxiety produced by unhealthy cognitive practices leads to additional and of ...

desires or fears—what are the consequences for his already inadequate self-esteem? What specific self-doubts are his neurotic de ...

farther and farther away from reality and thus lower and lower in his own estimation; the way in which the betrayal of his auton ...

First: the therapist must be prepared to deal with and correct a policy that is virtually universal among social metaphysicians ...

above reason and reality; he is still being manipulated by his social metaphysical problem, in his very effort to defy it. A pat ...

Guilt, anxiety, and self-doubt—the neurotic's chronic complaints—entail moral judgments. The psychotherapist must deal with such ...

In fact, there is no way for a psychotherapist to keep his own moral convictions out of his professional work. By countless subt ...

Objectivism does not begin by taking the phenomenon of "values" as a given; i.e., it does not begin merely by observing that men ...

A plant must feed itself in order to live; the sunlight, the water, the chemicals it needs are the values its nature has set it ...

awareness, which he shares with animals—is inadequate to solve it. To remain alive, man must think—which means: he must exercise ...