Self-Defeating Behaviors Experimental Research, Clinical Impressions, and Practical Implications
In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands. And ate of it. I said: "Is it good, friend?" "It is bitter-bitter," he answered; But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart. " Stephen Crane The B...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
1989, 1989
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1989 |
| Series: | The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction
- The Omote and Ura of Western Psychology
- Overview of the Chapters in This Volume
- References
- I. How Self-Defeating Behaviors Develop and Persist
- 2 Belief Perseverance and Self-Defeating Behavior
- 3 Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and Self-Defeating Behavior
- 4 Trying and Giving Up: Persistence and Lack of Persistence in Failure Situations
- II. Self-Defeating Responses to the Threat of Unpleasant Outcomes
- 5 Excuses Gone Awry: An Analysis of Self-Defeating Excuses
- 6 Making Things Harder for Yourself: Pride and Joy
- 7 Fear of Success
- 8 Choosing to Suffer or to…? Empirical Studies and Clinical Theories of Masochism
- 9 Toward an Understanding of Self-Defeating Responses Following Victimization
- 10 Learned Helplessness
- III. When Situational Responses Become Personality Dispositions
- 11 Self-Handicapping Behavior and the Self-Defeating Personality Disorder: Toward a Refined Clinical Perspective
- 12 Controversies Concerning the Self-Defeating Personality Disorder
- 13 The Paradox of the Self: A Psychodynamic and Social-Cognitive Integration
- IV. Conclusions
- 14 Integration: Conditions under Which Self-Defeating and Self-Enhancing Behaviors Develop
- Author Index