Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Four Major Theorists --Eric Fromm -- Carl Rogers -- Abraham maslow -- Rollo May -- Self-Theory for Everybody -- Encounter Groups -- Self-Helpers -- est -- Self-Help Sex -- Selfism As Bad Science -- Psychiatry, Biology, and Experimental Psychology -- Are We Intrinsically All That Good? -- From a Philosophical Point of View -- A Question of Definitions -- A BAsic Contradiction -- Ethical and Scientific Misrepresentations -- Selfism and Today's Society -- A Creed for the Youth Culture -- Selfism and Language -- Psychology for a Consumer Society --Selfism and Christianity: Historical Antecedents --Feuerbach -- Fosdick and Peale -- Pietism -- The Special case of Carl Rogers -- Selfism and the Family -- The Isolated Individual -- Parents As the Source of Our Troubles -- A Christian Critique -- Selfism As Idolatry -- Christian Love and Selfist Love -- Creativity and the Creator -- The Nature of Suffering -- Christian Politics --The problem for Psychology -- The Problem for Christianity --Christian Politics -- The problem for Psychology -- The Problems for Christianity --beyond the Secular Self -- The Bias in Being Öbjective" -- The Object's Revenge -- The Dilema of Existential narcissism -- Escape from the Self -- A New Christian Future? -- The End of Modern Heroism --The Coming Failure of Careerism -- The Emerging Opportunity