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Democracy's Little Self-Help Book
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1
The Atom and the
Psyche
Chapter 2
An Appeal to Liberals and Progressives to Understand the Psyche
Chapter 3
The Greatest Human Achievement Can Happen—Right Now
Chapter 4
Our Psyche Chooses Our Political Coordinates
Chapter 5
Discord in the Liberal Psyche
Chapter 6
Why Hating Freedom is the Passion of the Right
Chapter 7
The Quality of our Fighting Spirit
Chapter 8
When Inner Passivity Pilots the Destiny of America
Chapter 9
The Inner Politics of
Pseudo-Patriotism
Chapter 10
Fear is a Favorite Form of Unnecessary Suffering
Chapter 11
We the (Domesticated) People
Chapter 12
Overthrowing our Psyche’s Right
Wing
Chapter 13
The Deeper Roots of Political Struggle
Chapter 14
Bush’s Supporters Can’t Handle the Truth
Chapter 15
Sex and the Right Wing
Chapter 16
Rapture and the American Psyche
Chapter 17
How Religion is Misused to Deflect Our Inner Critic
Chapter 18
The Ideology of Liberals
Chapter 19
Humor Lacks Punch as a Tool of Reform
Chapter 20
Weak Leaders Substitute Control for Governance
Chapter 21
How to Resolve the Daily Struggle with Control Issues
Chapter 22
This Boss is no Democrat
Chapter 23
Liberals Jump in Line for Psychotherapeutic Purge
Chapter 24
The Need to be Right
Chapter 25
The Dialectic of Futility (Part I)
Chapter 26
The Use and Abuse of Negative Power
Chapter 27
The Essence of Terrorism
Chapter 28
The Emotional Virus behind Youth Violence
Chapter 29
The Dialectic of Futility (Part II)
Chapter 30
Inner Aggression’s Role in the Abortion Debate
Chapter 31
Our Psyche is ready for New Software
Chapter 32
Freeing Ourselves from Negative Feelings
Chapter 33
The Thrill of Negative
Peeping
Chapter 34
Misuse of the Emotional
Imagination
Chapter 35
Enthusiasm for Injustice Collecting Stalls Progress
Chapter 36
Inner Voices Disappear with Conscious Surveillance
Chapter 37
Resolving a Personal Issue Benefits National Unity
Chapter 38
Democracy Needs Us to Find Our Voice
Chapter 39
Our Emerging Self
Chapter 40
Epilogue
Appendix
Notes
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