1st Edition
The Significance of High Value in Human Behaviour Speech of the Suffering Soul
Setting the scene – the psychopathology of everyday life
Part 1: Arenas of anxiety
Chapter 1: Companion
Chapter 2: Comparison: "go compare": social media and social toxins
Chapter 3: Competition: tales of humiliation
Chapter 4: Compensation: violence, transfer and scapegoats
Part 2: Notes on a theory of value
Chapter 5: A discourse on method and the dog that didn’t bark
Chapter 6: Re-setting the personality drivers
Chapter 7: Markers of devaluation: difference and Indifference
Chapter 8: Dignity, indignity and the anger of a valuable self
Chapter 9: The relational turn: self-esteem and self-actualisation
Chapter 10: Like a sailboat in the harbour: collision and collusion
Chapter 1: Through the life course
Part 3: A positive psychology
Chapter 12: Transformative change and positive places
Postscript: what is it that Protests?
Biography
Chris Steed is a trained counsellor and Anglican priest who combines the experience of counselling psychotherapist practice and post-doctoral research where he developed the distinctive approach in this book. He is a member of the British Association of Psychotherapy and Counselling and the American Psychological Association, and is the author of Smart Leadership – Wise Leadership: Environments of Value in an Emerging Future (2017) and We Count, We Matter: Voice, Choice and the Death of Distance (2018).
