The Psychology of Self-Esteem

This last must be stressed. Quite aside from the question of the objective validity of his values, a man may misapply them in a ...

ideas, one of which is not conscious and manifests itself only in the form of a feeling. The resolution of such conflicts is not ...

able or painful (although psychological factors are often involved). On the level of emotions, it is a man's values that determi ...

premises, implicitly, without conscious awareness of doing so. He would be in danger if he had no means of being aware of their ...

obviously influences the strength of the impulse to action as well as, sometimes, the nature of the action taken. An action tend ...

there is some counteraction he could or should or might be able to take. If he were firmly, fully convinced that no action was p ...

Consider, as a classic illustration of this problem, a case such as the following. A priest has taken vows of celibacy and feels ...

A man can repress the knowledge of what emotion he is experiencing. Or he can repress the knowledge of its extent and intensity. ...

There are degrees of awareness. There is a gradient of diminishing mental clarity along the continuum from focal awareness to p ...

The subconscious is regulated, not only by the orders it receives in any immediate moment, but by the ''standing orders" it has ...

is not discovered. But whenever the memory of his theft comes back to him, he re-experiences the painful humiliation and guilt; ...

Or consider the case of a neurotically dependent woman who is married to a cruel, tyrannical man. She dares not let any criticis ...

sons: she believes that only a very immoral person could experience such rage; she is afraid of what the rage might drive her to ...

numbness and a diffuse, objectless guilt; he tells himself that his grief is too profound for tears; and he drags himself around ...

the latter is directly in his volitional control (Chapters Seven and Twelve). A man may make errors, honestly or otherwise, that ...

Freud as having said that one gets sick because of repression, and, ergo, they deduce that the best way to remain healthy is nev ...

nonevasive expelling of certain thoughts or feelings from focal awareness, in order to turn one's attention elsewhere. Suppressi ...

When a person represses certain of his thoughts, feelings, or memories, he does so because he regards them as threatening to him ...

another—answering questions pleasantly one day, and irritably dismissing them the next—sudden expressions of love followed by su ...

To the extent that he cannot fully extinguish his frustrated, anguished desire for rationality, he feels guilty. Such is the cor ...