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Self-Defeating Behaviors

Experimental Research, Clinical Impressions, and Practical Implications

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Rebecca C. Curtis

    1. Department of Psychology, Adelphi University, Garden City, USA

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Part of the book series: The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology (SSSC)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Rebecca Curtis
      Pages 1-7

  3. How Self-Defeating Behaviors Develop and Persist

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Belief Perseverance and Self-Defeating Behavior

      • Morgan P. Slusher, Craig A. Anderson
      Pages 11-40

    3. Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and Self-Defeating Behavior

      • James L. Hilton, John M. Darley, John H. Fleming
      Pages 41-65

    4. Trying and Giving Up

      • Norman T. Feather
      Pages 67-95

  4. Self-Defeating Responses to the Threat of Unpleasant Outcomes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. Excuses Gone Awry

      • Raymond L. Higgins, C. R. Snyder
      Pages 99-130

    3. Making Things Harder for Yourself

      • Mel L. Snyder, Arthur Frankel
      Pages 131-157

    4. Fear of Success

      • Donnah Canavan
      Pages 159-188

    5. Choosing to Suffer or to…?

      • Rebecca Curtis
      Pages 189-214

    6. Toward an Understanding of Self-Defeating Responses Following Victimization

      • Ronnie Janoff-Bulman, Carol E. Thomas
      Pages 215-234

    7. Learned Helplessness

      • Christopher Peterson, Lisa M. Bossio
      Pages 235-257

  5. When Situational, Responses Become Personality Dispositions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 259-259
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    2. Self-Handicapping Behavior and the Self-Defeating Personality Disorder

      • Steven Berglas
      Pages 261-288

    3. Controversies Concerning the Self-Defeating Personality Disorder

      • Thomas A. Widiger, Allen J. Frances
      Pages 289-309

    4. The Paradox of the Self

      • Timothy J. Strauman
      Pages 311-339

  6. Conclusions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 341-341
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    2. Integration

      • Rebecca Curtis
      Pages 343-361

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 363-379
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About this book

In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands. And ate of it. I said: "Is it good, friend?" "It is bitter-bitter," he answered; But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart. " Stephen Crane The Black Riders and Other Lines "It is the function of great art to purge and give meaning to human suffering," wrote Bernard Knox (1982, p. 149) in his introduction to Oedipus Rex. This is done by showing some causal connection between the hero's free will and his suffer­ ing, by bringing to the fore the interplay of the forces of destiny and human freedom. Knox states that Freud was wrong when he suggested that it was "the particular nature of the material" in Oedipus that makes the play so deeply moving, and not the contrast between destiny and human will. Knox believes that this play has an overpowering effect upon us, not only because we share the tendency of Oedipus to direct" our first sexual impulse towards our mother" and "our first murderous wish against our father," as Freud tells us, but also because the theological modification of the legend introduced by Sophocles calls into question the sacred beliefs of our time (Knox, 1982, pp. 133-137).

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, Adelphi University, Garden City, USA

    Rebecca C. Curtis

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Self-Defeating Behaviors

  • Book Subtitle: Experimental Research, Clinical Impressions, and Practical Implications

  • Editors: Rebecca C. Curtis

  • Series Title: The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0783-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-8080-4Published: 26 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-0783-9Published: 11 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1568-2528

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 398

  • Topics: Clinical Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology

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