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Author:   John M. Rector (Counseling Psychologist, Counseling Psychologist, Counseling Center, Brigham Young University-Idaho, USA)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780199355419

ISBN 10:   019935541
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   07 August 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"INTRODUCTION: LEAVING PLATO'S CAVE-OUR ONLY HOPE SECTION I-SHADOWS ON THE CAVE WALL: THE MANY FACES OF OBJECTIFICATION · Chapter One: Preliminaries · Chapter Two: Objectification: A Slippery, Multiple Concept · Chapter Three: Objectification Revisited: A Spectrum of Misapprehension SECTION II-THE HUMAN SITUATION: LIMITATIONS AND POSSIBILITIES · Chapter Four: Three Observations from Antiquity: ""Philosophia Perennis "" · Chapter Five: Unity Consciousness: Reality at its Deepest Level SECTION III-WHAT WE ARE: DISPOSITIONAL FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO OBJECTIFICATION · Chapter Six: The Paradoxical Nature of Boundaries · Chapter Seven: Boundaries of Self · Chapter Eight: Narcissism · Chapter Nine: The Ego (Part One): Its Nature and Manifestations · Chapter Ten: The Ego (Part Two): Having Versus Being · Chapter Eleven: Problems Stemming from Death Denial SECTION IV-WHO WE ARE: SITUATIONAL FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO OBJECTIFICATION · Chapter Twelve: Rising Awareness of Situational Power · Chapter Thirteen: Situationally-Induced Objectification: Three Relevant Classic Examples · Chapter Fourteen: What is the Heroic Individual? Momentary Transcendence of Objectification SECTION V-PATHWAYS TOWARD TRANSFORMATION: TRAILS LEADING OUT OF PLATO'S CAVE · Chapter Fifteen: The Problem of Enlightenment · Chapter Sixteen: Theistic & Nontheistic Approaches to Transcending Objectification · Chapter Seventeen: Objectification's Antidote: The Enlightenment Spectrum"

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A valuable addition to current scholarship, it would be an excellent introductory text--a starting point from which readers could continue their own more focused research. --Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies

"""A valuable addition to current scholarship, it would be an excellent introductory text--a starting point from which readers could continue their own more focused research.""--Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies"

""A valuable addition to current scholarship, it would be an excellent introductory text--a starting point from which readers could continue their own more focused research.""--Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies

Author Information

John M. Rector, Ph.D., is a Counseling Psychologist at the counceling center at Brigham Young University in Southeast Idaho, where he provides psychotherapy to university students, writes, and teaches on the psychology of religion. Dr. Rector is the past chairperson for the American Psychological Association Annual Convention for Division 36 (Psychology of Religion). He is currently serving as assistant editor for the journal Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy. He and his wife have three sons.

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