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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAverting Global Extinction is a brilliant effort to save our species and our world from the consequences of our least mature, least realistic tendencies. As everything that sustains human life hurtles toward disaster, Louis Berger notes that our collective response has been a social pathology of denial, distraction, and wishful fantasy. Although other authors have published similar observations, this book is unique in offering a closely reasoned psychological approach to changing such self-defeating patterns. Berger's erudition encompasses theory and praxis, science and art, the insights of the past and the stunning originality of a new angle of vision. His writing combines the intellect of the philosopher with the wisdom of the experienced therapist. I hope this book is widely read while there is still time to apply that wisdom. -- Nancy McWilliams, PhD, Rutgers University Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology
Louis Berger has turned his critical mind to the dangers of global destruction and the result is a book that challenges the universal denial of reality. Viewing society as a patient in need of treatment, this discourse on psychoanalytic sociology can be read with profit by a general audience. -- Joseph Reppen, PhD, ABPP, former editor of the journals Psychoanalytic Psychology and Psychoanalytic Books
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 1. Introduction Chapter 3 2. Individual Psychology and Sociology Chapter 4 3. The Freud Wars—A Critique Chapter 5 4. The Framework of Defense Analysis Chapter 6 5. The Target Framework: Sociocultural Defense Analysis (SDA)
