Research Catalog

Title

Psychology's sanction for selfishness : the error of egoism in theory and therapy / Michael A. Wallach and Lise Wallach.

Author

Wallach, Michael A.

Publication

San Francisco : W.H. Freeman, ©1983.

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Details

Additional Authors

Wallach, Lise.

Description

xi, 307 pages; 21 cm

Series Statement

A Series of books in psychology

Uniform Title

Series of books in psychology

Subject

• Psychology > Philosophy
• Self-interest
• Egoism
• Psychoanalysis
• Humanistic psychology
• Behaviorism (Psychology)
• Philosophy
• Psychology
• Ego
• Philosophy
• Psychology
• Behaviorism
• psychoanalysis
• philosophy
• psychology
• 77.02 philosophy and theory of psychology
• Egoism
• Humanistic psychology
• Psychoanalysis
• Psychology > Philosophy
• Self-interest
• Egoismus
• Psychologie
• Egoïsme
• Motivatie
• Psychoanalyse

Note

• Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 275-296.

Contents

Should we be "looking out for number one"? -- Freud and the selfishness legacy: Freud's basic ideas -- Freud and the selfishness legacy: why did Freud think this way? -- Freud and the selfishness legacy: other forms of motivation -- Sullivan, Horney, and Fromm: the significance of the social -- Sullivan, Horney, and Fromm: opposing prescriptions and restraints, promoting self-realization -- Maslow and Rogers: further calls to actualize and be oneself -- Maslow and Rogers: determination from within ourselves, not from outside -- Current academic psychology on human conduct -- Must psychology promote selfishness? the assumption of egoism -- Must psychology promote selfishness? therapeutic benefits from turning outward -- The place of ethics.

ISBN

• 0716714663
• 9780716714668
• 0716714655
• 9780716714651

LCCN

82018391

OCLC

• ocm08927954
• 8927954
• SCSB-612612

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library