The Selfish Society

How We All Forgot To Love One Another and Made Money Instead

By: Sue Gerhardt

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Paperback | 30 April 2010 | Edition Number 1

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Ambitious and wide-ranging, The Selfish Society reveals the vital importance of understanding our early emotional lives, arguing that by focusing on the attention we give to our young children we can create a better society.

Open any newspaper, and what do you find?

Violence and crime, child abuse and neglect, expenses scandals, addiction, fraud and corruption, environmental melt-down

Is Britain indeed broken? How did modern society get to this point? Who is to blame? How can we change?

We have come to inhabit a culture of selfish individualism which has confused material well-being with happiness. As society became bigger and more competitive, working life was cut off from child-rearing and the new economics ignored people's emotional needs. We have lived with this culture so long that it is hard to imagine it being any different. Yet we are now at a turning point where the need for change is becoming urgent. If we are to build a more reflective and collaborative society, Gerhardt argues, we need to support the caring qualities that are learnt in early life and integrate them into our political and economic thinking.

Inspiring and thought-provoking, The Selfish Society sets out a roadmap to a more positive and compassionate future.

About the Author

Sue Gerhardt is a practising psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She wrote the bestselling Why Love Matters, an accessible account of the neuroscience of early development.

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