Averting Global Extinction Our Irrational

"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."

Louis S. Berger is a clinical psychologist and a former assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville School of Medicine.

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Individual Psychology and Sociology	p. 17
Psychoanalytic Sociology	p. 18
National Character Studies	p. 20
Critical Theory	p. 22
Critical Social Science	p. 23
Critique: Relevance for Sociocultural Interventions	p. 26
The Freud Wars-A Critique	p. 33
Standard Versions	p. 33
The Wrong Wars: Alternatives	p. 35
Reductive Formalization	p. 36
Observation, Data, Language	p. 39
The Relevance of Theory to Clinical Practice	p. 41
A Comment Regarding Clinical Efficacy	p. 42
An Alternative to the Science-Hermeneutics Disputes: Praxis	p. 43
Appendix-The Ontology of Language Problem	p. 47
The Framework of Defense Analysis	p. 61
Translation and Its Enigmas	p. 61
Background and History	p. 63
Constituents	p. 65
The Frame	p. 65
Defense	p. 66
Free Association	p. 67
Patients	p. 68
Therapists	p. 69
The Therapy Process	p. 70
Manifestations of an Aroused Defense	p. 70
Demonstrating versus Interpreting	p. 71
Relative Effectiveness	p. 72
The Role of Society	p. 73
The Role of Theory	p. 76
The Target Framework: Sociocultural Defense Analysis (SDA)	p. 83
Society as Patient	p. 83
Ontological Issues	p. 83
Sociocultural Psychopathology, Symptoms, and Defenses	p. 86
Diagnostics	p. 90
Society's "Society"-The Other	p. 93
Venue	p. 93
Modalities of Defense	p. 95
SDA Interventions	p. 95
Comparisons with Previous Sociotherapeutic Approaches	p. 97
The SDA Therapist	p. 98
A Comment	p. 100
References	p. 105
Index	p. 119
About the Author	p. 123
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