1st Edition

The Significance of High Value in Human Behaviour Speech of the Suffering Soul

By Chris Steed Copyright 2019
    206 Pages
    by Routledge

    206 Pages
    by Routledge

    The Significance of High Value in Human Behaviour is an innovative conceptualisation of how the quest for a high self-worth works as a psychosocial dynamic, presenting the idea that feelings of impotence and low self-esteem induce a powerful impetus on negative human action. This book gives an account of what it means to base a whole psychological perspective on high value, which has been an understudied aspect of human action.





    Employing an ethnographical approach, the book uses client observations and social research to promote original solutions in an empathetic and engaging manner for psychological support services aiding isolated individuals. It considers the concept of a valuable self and examines the negative effects within the personality which can be generated when this drive for a valuable self is blocked through human devaluation or violence.





    The Significance of High Value in Human Behaviour will appeal to academics and post-graduate students in the fields of psychology and psychotherapy, psychotherapists with specialist interests in loneliness and self-worth, and sociologists concerned with the psychology of the self.

    Setting the scene – the psychopathology of everyday life



    Part 1: Arenas of anxiety



    Chapter 1: Companion



    Chapter 2: Comparison: "go compare": social media and social toxins



    Chapter 3: Competition: tales of humiliation



    Chapter 4: Compensation: violence, transfer and scapegoats





    Part 2: Notes on a theory of value



    Chapter 5: A discourse on method and the dog that didn’t bark



    Chapter 6: Re-setting the personality drivers



    Chapter 7: Markers of devaluation: difference and Indifference



    Chapter 8: Dignity, indignity and the anger of a valuable self



    Chapter 9: The relational turn: self-esteem and self-actualisation



    Chapter 10: Like a sailboat in the harbour: collision and collusion



    Chapter 1: Through the life course





    Part 3: A positive psychology



    Chapter 12: Transformative change and positive places



    Postscript: what is it that Protests?

    Biography

    Chris Steed is a trained counsellor and Anglican priest who combines the experience of counselling psychotherapist practice and post-doctoral research where he developed the distinctive approach in this book. He is a member of the British Association of Psychotherapy and Counselling and the American Psychological Association, and is the author of Smart Leadership – Wise Leadership: Environments of Value in an Emerging Future (2017) and We Count, We Matter: Voice, Choice and the Death of Distance (2018).