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Erosion: The Psychopathology of Self-Criticism
Golan Shahar
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Description for Erosion: The Psychopathology of Self-Criticism
Hardback. Erosion offers a comprehensive treatment of self-criticism based in philosophy, developmental science, personality and clinical psychology, social theories, and cognitive-affective neuroscience. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JMC; JMM; JMS; MMJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 460.
Self-criticism is a personality trait that has been implicated in a wide range of psychopathologies and developmental arrests. Defined as the tendency to set unrealistically high standards for one's self and to adopt a punitive stance towards the self once these standards are not met, self-criticism is both active and cyclical. Self-critics actively create the social-interpersonal conditions that generate their distress, and their distress itself exacerbates self-criticism. Erosion offers a comprehensive treatment of self-criticism based in philosophy, developmental science, personality and clinical psychology, social theories, and cognitive-affective neuroscience. Professor Golan Shahar expertly summarizes the most recent research on the ... Read more
Self-criticism is a personality trait that has been implicated in a wide range of psychopathologies and developmental arrests. Defined as the tendency to set unrealistically high standards for one's self and to adopt a punitive stance towards the self once these standards are not met, self-criticism is both active and cyclical. Self-critics actively create the social-interpersonal conditions that generate their distress, and their distress itself exacerbates self-criticism. Erosion offers a comprehensive treatment of self-criticism based in philosophy, developmental science, personality and clinical psychology, social theories, and cognitive-affective neuroscience. Professor Golan Shahar expertly summarizes the most recent research on the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
460g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199929368
SKU
V9780199929368
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About Golan Shahar
Golan Shahar, PhD, is Professor of Clinical-Health and Developmental-Health Psychology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, where he directs the Stress, Self, and Health Lab. Dr. Shahar is the founding director of the Ben-Gurion University Center for the Advancement of Research on Stress (BGU-CARES). He also serves as Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine. He ... Read more
Reviews for Erosion: The Psychopathology of Self-Criticism
It is not very often that a clinical psychology treatise manages to negotiate the lab, the library, and the clinic with great skill, humility, and sparkling wit. Golan Shahar has achieved this. . . and the readers of his book will be well rewarded for their investment of time and scholarly energy.
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