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The Psychology of Self-Deception
by Neel Burton
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Pub Date 12 May 2019 | Archive Date 4 Mar 2020
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Description
Self-deception is common and universal, and the cause of most human tragedies. Of course, the science of self-deception can help us to live better and get more out of life. But it can also cast a murky light on human nature and the human condition, for example, on such exclusively human phenomena as anger, depression, fear, pity, pride, dream making, love making, and god making, not to forget age-old philosophical problems such as selfhood, virtue, happiness, and the good life. Nothing, in the end, could possibly be more important.
Advance Praise
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love... --Fyodor Dostoevsky
Burton provides an excellent explanation of how we use psychological defence mechanisms to protect ourselves from painful truths ... [The book] would make a great present for friends interested in psychology, and a welcome change to the standard examination revision texts in psychiatry. --The Psychiatrist
Featured Reviews
Rosa S, Educator
It is one thing to deceive others, but quite another to deceive oneself. In what ways can we do that? Whether we are repressing the truth, adapting ourselves to a new reality, or making up lies that agree with our hopes and inner realities, deceiving ourselves has serious consequences.
An unexamined life is not worth living, said Socrates. Indeed, knowing how we deceive and hide ourselves would be very useful. Combining ancient wisdom with psychological principles, this book explores what it means to know oneself. Each of us knows that that we lie. But knowing how and why we don't tell the truth empowers us to change our future trajectory.
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