Buch, Englisch, 265 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1270 g
When Good Intentions Go Bad
Buch, Englisch, 265 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1270 g
Reihe: Clinical Sociology: Research and Practice
ISBN: 978-0-306-46211-5
Verlag: Springer US
If the truth be known, I am only a partially reformed idealist. In the secret depths of my soul, I still wish to make the world a better place and sometimes fantasize about heroically eradicating its faults. When I encounter its limitations, it is consequently with deep regret and continued surprise. How, I ask myself, is it possible that that which seems so fight can be a chimera? And why, I wonder, aren't people as courageous, smart, or nice as I would like? The pain of realizing these things is sometimes so intense that I want to close my eyes and lose myself in the kinds of daydreams that comforted me as a youngster. One thing is clear, my need to come to grips with my idealism had its origin in a lifetime of naivet6. From the beginning, I wanted to be a "good" person. Often when life was most treacherous, I retreated into a comer from whence I escaped into reveries of moral glory. When I was very young, my faith was in religion. In Hebrew school, I took my lessons seriously and tried to apply them at home. By my teen years, this had been replaced by an allegiance to socialism. In the Brooklyn where I grew up, my teachers and relatives made this seem the natural course. When I reached my twenties, however, and was obliged to confront a series of personal deficiencies, psychotherapy shouldered its way to the fore.
Zielgruppe
Research
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft: Theorie & Allgemeines
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines
- Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
Weitere Infos & Material
Idealism on Trial.- In the Name of Morality.- Messianic Stickball.- Dreams or Nightmares.- Extreme I: Radical Feminism.- Extreme II: Radical Civil Rights.- Extreme III: Radical Medicalism.- Luminosity Blindness.- No Respect.
