1. Four Major Theorists -- 17
Erich Fromm -- 18
Carl Rogers -- 20
Abraham Maslow -- 23
Rollo May -- 24

2. Self-Theory for Everybody -- 28
Encounter Groups -- 29
Self-Helpers -- 30
Est -- 31
Self-Help Sex -- 34

3. Selfism As Bad Science -- 37
Psychiatry, Biology, and Experimental Psychology -- 38
Are We Intrinsically All That Good? -- 44

4. From a Philosophical Point of View -- 50
A Question of Definitions -- 50
A Basic Contradiction -- 52
Ethical and Scientific Misrepresentations -- 55

5. Selfism and Today’s Society -- 57
A Creed for the Youth Culture -- 57
Selfism and Language -- 58
Psychology for a Consumer Society -- 60

6. Selfism and Christianity: Historical Antecedents -- 66
Feuerbach -- 66
Fosdick and Peale -- 69
Pietism -- 74
The Special Case of Carl Rogers -- 75

7. Selfism and the Family -- 83
The Isolated Individual -- 83
Parents As the Source of Our Troubles -- 85

8. A Christian Critique -- 91
Selfism As Idolatry -- 91
Christian Love and Selfist Love -- 96
Creativity and the Creator -- 102
The Nature of Suffering -- 103

9. Christian Politics -- 106
The Problem for Psychology -- 106
The Problem for Christianity -- 107

10. Beyond the Secular Self -- 115
The Bias in Being “Objective” -- 115
The Object’s Revenge -- 118
The Dilemma of Existential Narcissism -- 120
Escape from the Self -- 126

11. A New Christian Future? -- 130
The End of Modern Heroism -- 130
The Coming Failure of Careerism -- 131
The Emerging Opportunity -- 133