Averting global extinction : our irrational society as therapy patient /
Berger, Louis S.
Lanham, Md. : Jason Aronson,
c2009.
"Humanity's irrational failure to give global and human survival top priority is complex, puzzling, and ensconced in and perpetuated by pathological societal defenses. In Averting Global Extinction, Louis S. Berger conceptualizes society's self-destructiveness as an analogue to the self-destructive psychopathologies of individuals and devises a "sociocultural therapy" by translating a carefully selected individual psychotherapy framework, a subtype of the so-called analysis of defense, into a corresponding societal therapeutic methodology - society becomes the "patient.""--BOOK JACKET.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-118) and index.
Individual psychology and sociology -- The Freud wars--a critique -- The framework of defense analysis -- The target framework : sociocultural defense analysis (SDA).
"Humanity's irrational failure to give global and human survival top priority is complex, puzzling, and ensconced in and perpetuated by pathological societal defenses. In Averting Global Extinction, Louis S. Berger conceptualizes society's self-destructiveness as an analogue to the self-destructive psychopathologies of individuals and devises a "sociocultural therapy" by translating a carefully selected individual psychotherapy framework, a subtype of the so-called analysis of defense, into a corresponding societal therapeutic methodology - society becomes the "patient.""--BOOK JACKET.
Psychoanalysis
Survival.