The Psychology of Self-Esteem

draws, alienated by a passionless remoteness which she perceives as weak and unmasculine. Or: The man who represses his desire f ...

represser's mind is only partially disabled by blocks, the unobstructed area of his mind retains the capacity to work at removin ...

Chapter Six— 6. Mental Health The Standard of Mental Health One of the prime tasks of the science of psychology is to provide de ...

The theorists who maintain this position usually insist that the closest one can come to a definition of mental health is: confo ...

Such descriptions may be valid, but they are not definitions of mental health—and their precise meaning is not always clear. One ...

to oneself. Evaluations underlie and generate desires, emotions, and goals. His judgments of what is for him or against him dete ...

The concept of "psycho-epistemology" is introduced in order to designate the study of mental operations on the conscious and sub ...

clarity with regard to any issue he is considering; or he may come to accept as "normal" some level of unclarity or confusion. H ...

This is the alternative at the root of the issue of mental health. If no such alternative in the operation of man's mind were po ...

This is fairly obvious in cases where the patient's predominant symptoms are hallucinations, delusions, "word- salads," neologis ...

causes or roots. The tendency to such a confusion underlies the arguments of those cultural relativists who observe that beliefs ...

indulgences in irrational wishes, the surrenders to surmountable fears, the willful acts of self-blindness—such are the means by ...

Psychological Maturity Closely related to the concept of mental health is that of psychological maturity. "Maturity," in the bro ...

concepts, of drawing inferences, of making deductions, of reaching conclusions, of asking new questions and discovering new answ ...

like an infinite time away. But a healthy adult does not view his life and goals in this manner. He does not repress his frustra ...

This is not the attitude of a genuinely mature adult. An adult, too, of course, may recognize (and, indeed, must often be prepar ...

PART TWO— Part Two: The Psychology of Self-Esteem ...

Chapter Seven— 7. The Nature and Source of Self-Esteem The Meaning of Self-Esteem There is no value-judgment more important to m ...

So intensely does a man feel the need of a positive view of himself, that he may evade, repress, distort his judgment, disintegr ...

a person were to think himself "stupid" or "insane," he would necessarily regard this as a devastating reflection on his ability ...