Book Contents

1 THE BIPOLAR NATURE OF MAN
Overview
First Terms
Basic Capacities
The Elementary Condition
The Morality of Survival
Life in a Group
The Danger of Government

2 RULES AND REASON
Rules for Living
Good and Moral Things
The Golden Rule
The Intersubjective Perspective
Intersubjectivity and Obligation
Government and the Intersubjective Perspective
The Intersubjective Perspective and Generativity

3 DEPENDENCY AND COMPETENCE IN COMMUNITY LIFE
The Resolution of Helplessness
The Constraints of Conscience
Skills for Living
Ego Strength
Conscience in the Individual and Society

4 SOCIAL POLICY AND CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
Socialism and the Modern Liberal Agenda
The Meaning of Government in Modern Liberalism
The Child's Growth to Competence
Aspects of Development: Competence

5 ALTRUISM AND THE COMPETENT SELF
Competence and Altruism
The Intrusions of Government Welfare
The Competent Self
The Strength of Community

6 THE INNATE CHARACTER OF CHOICE
Freedom and Choice
Determinism, Strict and Otherwise
Practical Determinism, Morality and Freedom
Intrapsychic Threats to Individual Liberty

7 COMPETENCE AND COLLECTIVISM
The Ideals of Autonomy and Cooperation
Choice and Competence
Individual Sovereignty and Government
The Administrative State
The Intrusions of Government

8 PARENTING AND CULTURE
The Individual in Society
The Irrational Self-Interest of Narcissism
Early Mental Representations
The Primitive Experience
The Mother-Child Relationship as Social Process

9 THE IDEALS AND IMPERATIVES OF DEVELOPENT
Freedom and the Origins of the Psyche
Development and the Embrace of Freedom
Wards of the State
The Tools of Survival
Rational Arrangements
The Invitation to Regress
American Cultural Decline
Effects of the Liberal Agenda

10 SIGNS OF DECLINE
The Symptoms of Societal Disorder
Social Decay and Illegitimacy
The Madness of American Government
The Political Inequality of the Liberal Agenda
The Fraudulence of Government

11 RECAP OF PART I

PART II
Preface to Part II

12 THE SCIENTIFIC STATUS OF BEHAVIORAL DESCRIPTIONS
Hard and Soft Science
The Scientific Status of Inferences Concerning Human Behavior

13 CHALLENGES OF DEVELOPMENT
Personality and Society
Drives, Instincts and the Tasks of Living
The Integration of Drives and Needs
The Lizard Brain

14 THE DICHOTOMIES OF DEVELOPMENT
The Goals of Parenting
Functional Dynamisms and Dispositions
Dichotomies and Development
In Further Defense of Dichotomies
The General Relevance of Developmental Dichotomies

15 CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL PROCESS
Human Nature and Freedom
The Mother-Child Relationship
The General Nurturing Function of Mothering

16 ATTACHMENT, DETACHMENT, AND TRUST
Mother and Child
Social Institutions and Attachment
The Political Relevance of Pathological Dependency
Institutions and Values

17 TRUST, MISTRUST, AND THE SOCIAL PROCESS
The Fundamental Importance of Trust
The Liberal Strategy of Mistrust and its Consequences
Additional Implications of Basic Trust

18 AUTONOMY AND SOCIAL PROCESS
Individuation and Autonomy
Autonomy as a Developmental Achievement
Individuation

19 BIOLOGY AND AUTONOMY
The Biological Foundations of Autonomy
The Separate and Vulnerable Body

20 AUTONOMY AND THE SELF
Self and Agency
The Nature of the Self
The Ideal of Individuation
Initiative, Self, and Connection
The Body-Self, Agency, and Autonomy

21 AUTONOMY, INDIVIDUAL, AND INDIVIDUALISM
The Elements of Individualism
Rules and Rights Under Individualism
The Biological and Psychological Bases of Individualism
The Relational Basis of Individualism
Ethics and Individualism
Individualism and History

22 CAUSE, EFFECT AND WILL
Intention and Will
The Emergence of Human Action
Erickson on the Nature of Will
Will as a Virtue
Will and the Foundations of Law

23 RULES AND THE CHILD
Additional Meanings of Will
Mutuality and Power
The Just Social Order

24 ATTACHMENT REVISITED
Attachment and its Vulnerabilities
Insecurity and Tyranny
Personality Structure, the Self and Others

25 AN OVERVIEW OF EARLY DEVELOPMENT
The Complexity of Development
Biological and Early Psychological Foundations
The Emergence of Mutuality
The Deprivation of Indulgence

26 INITIATIVE
The Concept of Initiative
Purpose and Initiative
Normal and Pathological Guilt
The Biology of Initiative

27 THE FAILURE OF INITIATIVE
Initiative, Industry and Virtue
Initiative and the Good
Further Reflections on Initiative
Initiative, Virtue, and Freedom
Additional Remarks on the Pathology of Initiative

28 THE FOUNDATIONS OF INDUSTRY
The Juvenile Era
The Technologies of Everyday Living
Play, Magic, and Mystery in the Grade School Years
Impairment in the Industry Era
Healing in the Juvenile Era

29 ACHIEVEMENT IN THE JUVENILE ERA
The Well Developed Juvenile
The Virtue of Competence
Competence and Healing

30 MORALITY IN THE JUVENILE ERA
Altruism in the Juvenile Era

31 ADOLESCENCE AND IDENTITY
Adolescence: Concept and Course
The Risks of Adolescence
The Transition to Adulthood

32 ADOLESCENCE AND FREEDOM
Adolescence and the Elements of Freedom
Individuation and the Consolidation of Identity
The Enlarged and Private Self
A Mind of One's Own
Brief Adolescent Regressions

33 ADOLESCENCE, HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
Healthy Action Revisited
The Personal Pathologies of Adolescent Competence
Personality Disorders and Freedom
Personality Disorder Clusters
Cluster A Disorders
Cluster B Disorders
Cluster C Disorders

34 ADOLESCENCE AND SOCIAL PATHOLOGY
The Personal Requirements for Liberty
Society and Freedom

35 ADOLESCENCE AND THE LIBERAL AGENDA
Benign Collectivism
The Liberal Agenda's Offer to the Adolescent
The Liberal Manifesto: Major Principles of Modern Liberalism
Collectivism over Freedom
Illusory Freedom

36 YOUNG AND MATURE ADULTHOOD
The Nature and Purpose of Adulthood
The Adult Society
Redefinition of the Self
Identity and Commitment
Adult and Government
Mature Adulthood

37 FREEDOM AND FAMILY
A Definition of Family
The Competent Family

38 FAMILY FUNCTIONS AND THE LIBERAL AGENDA
The Liberal Assault on the Family
The Fruits of Modern Liberalism

39 THE COMPETENT SOCIETY
Competence Revisited
A System of Rules
The Relevance of Character
The Competent Society
Rights that Structure Liberty
Self-Ownership · First Possession · Ownership and Exchange · Self-Defense · Just Compensation for Takings · Limited Access · Restitution
Reflections on Rights and Rules
The Evolution of Rules

40 THE FORCE OF RULES
Hypothetical Imperative
The Obligatory Force of the Hypothetical Imperative
The Importance of Rules
Rules and Human Development
Rules and Freedom

PART III
Preface to Part III

41 THE BENIGN LIBERAL MIND
The Assault of Modern Liberalism
The Appeal of America
Caretaking Sentiments
Options for Helping
The Benign Liberal Mind and its Illusions

42 THE FALLACIES OF POSITIVE RIGHTS
Positive Rights and the Injustice of Suffering
Varieties and Causes of Human Suffering
Authentic Injustice
The Just State
The Vagueness of Liberal Principles

43 THE RADICAL LIBERAL MIND
The Liberal Mind's Perception of Reality
The Values of the Radical Liberal Mind
The Psychodynamics of the Radical Liberal Mind
Radical Liberal Themes
Additional Psychodynamics of the Radical Liberal Mind
Transference

44 THE RADICAL DEFICITS OF INFANCY
The Developmental Deficits of the Radical Liberal Mind
Basic Trust
The Details of Basic Mistrust
Failure in Basic Trust
The Cynicism of the Radical Liberal Mind
Radical Projection

45 RADICAL DEFICITS IN CHILDHOOD
Radical Liberal Deficits: Autonomy, Initiative, and Industry
The Radical Liberal's Confession
The Radical Confession from Basic Mistrust
The Radical Confession from Failed Autonomy
The Radical Confession from Failed Initiative

46 RADICAL DEFICITS IN THE JUVENILE AND ADOLESCENT ERAS
Radical Confession from the Industry Era
The Radical Confession from the Identity Era
The Epiphany of Politics
Modern Liberalism as Personal Salvation

47 IDEAL AND REALITY IN RADICAL LIBERALISM
The Consolidation of Radical Beliefs
The Liberal Agenda as an Evil
Ideal and Reality in Radical Liberalism
Rights · Freedom and Autonomy · Economic Equality · Distributive Justice · Social Equality · Pluralism · Universal Love and Compassion · Anti-War and Anti-Violent Attitudes · Environmentalism · Education · Abortion · Feminism and Radical Feminism

48 INTEGRITY AND TREATMENT
Integrity and the Lifecycle
The Threat of Despair
The Integrity of Self and Society
Evaluation and Psychodynamic Diagnosis of Modern Liberalism
Symptoms of Neurotic Liberalism
Spontaneous Remission
The Treatment of Modern Liberalism