Starting in the sixties, teachers and parents began to believe that building self-esteem in children was the best way to develop confident happy adults. But psychology researcher Jean Twenge says that the truth is not so simple. In her latest book, The Narcissism Epidemic, she unveils some startling evidence that this cultural trend towards individual [...]
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The Narcissism Epidemic (Think About This #68)
September 2nd, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 147 Comments · Culture, Pop Culture, Postmodernism, Think About This
Ego, Spiritual Transformation, and the Paradox of Transpersonal Psychology
August 17th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 4 Comments · Culture, Pop Culture, Spirituality, Think About This
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been thumbing through old back issues of the magazine in an effort to touch up on my EnlightenNext history. Deepening my understanding of how the magazine’s inquiry has evolved over the past seventeen years always helps inform the projects and perspectives I’m actively working with today. While each and [...]
Tags:ego·Freud·Kaisa Puhakka·Ken Wilber·psychology·transpersonal psychology
Evolution, Evolution, Where Art Thou?
July 5th, 2009 by Carter Phipps· 9 Comments · Evolutionary Biology, Science
The hot new field of evolutionary psychology is coming under attack from all sides. Let’s just make sure we don’t throw the baby of evolutionary thinking out with the bathwater of questionable science.
The war over evolutionary psychology seems to be escalating these days. And from the pages of the Nation to a recent [...]
Tags:Biology·cavemen·david sloan wilson·Evolution·evolutionary psychology·Freud·human behavior·Massimo Pigliucci·newsweek·psychology·sharon begley·The Nation
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