Honoring the Self

The Pyschology of Confidence and Respect

By: Nathaniel Branden

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Paperback | 1 August 1985 | Edition Number 1

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Self-concept is destiny

What is the most important judgement you will ever make? The judgement you pass on yourself. Self-esteem is the key to success or failure.

"Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem," says pioneering psychologist Nathaniel Branden, "and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence—and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself—your self-esteem—is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life."

• How to grow in self-confidence and self-respect.
• How to nurture self-esteem in children.
• How to break free of guilt and fear of others'' disapproval.
• How to honor the self—the ethics of rational self-interest.

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Another stuffy, verbose credo by the repetitious author of The Psychology of Self-Esteem, The Disowned Self, The Romantic Love Question & Answer Book, etc. An Ayn Rand disciple and Los Angeles therapist, Branden intones that "to honor the self is to practice selfishness in the highest, noblest, and least understood sense of that word." In terms of psychological theory, this approach involves a little anti-Freudian emphasis on free-will - but mostly just longwinded jargon for basic, highly generalized principles of ego development: the need for self-esteem; the ways in which children do or don't get ego-reinforcement; the problems that arise when self-esteem is lacking - guilt, dependence on outside valuation, lack of self-acceptance; passivity, defense mechanisms. ("I call any value chosen to support pseudo-self-esteem a defense value.") As for treatment, Branden gives examples of his sentence-completion techniques (cf. If You Could Hear What I Cannot Say), while also recommending meditation/relaxation methods for increasing self-awareness. And, after touching briefly on death anxiety ("fear of autonomy entails fear of self-responsibility entails fear of identity entails fear of aloneness entails fear of death"), he offers some Rand-ish thoughts on the self in society - affirming the nobility of "proself, individualist ethics." Kernels of truth float here and there, but they're mired in a soggy replay of Me Decade terminology at its most pompous: more an incentive to snooze than self-actualize. (Kirkus Reviews)

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