Skip to content
Catalog
You are not logged in |Login  
Request Add to My Lists Add to Bag MARC Display Return to Browse More Information
     
Limit search to available items
Previous Record Next Record
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Baumeister, Roy F.

Title Escaping the self : alcoholism, spirituality, masochism, and other flights from the burden of selfhood / Roy F. Baumeister.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Basic Books, ©1991.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  155.2 BAU    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  155.2 B347E    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  155.2 B347E2    Check Shelf
Description xii, 268 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-260) and index.
Contents Identity : paradise or prison? -- Why escape? : the burden of self -- The self against itself -- The process of escape -- Suicide : oblivion beckons -- Masochism : the pleasure-pain paradox -- Floating away with the bottle : alcohol use and abuse -- Binge eating : vanishing bite by bite -- Religious exercise and spirituality -- Other factors, other routes.
Summary Discusses the possible costs associated with the overemphasis on selfhood.
Subject Escape (Psychology)
Self.
Self-destructive behavior.
Escape (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst00915123
Self. (OCoLC)fst01111441
Self-destructive behavior. (OCoLC)fst01111606
Ego.
Personality Disorders.
Indexed Term Self
Other Form: Online version: Baumeister, Roy F. Escaping the self. New York, N.Y. : Basic Books, ©1991 (OCoLC)551532147
ISBN 0465020534
9780465020539
0465020542
9780465020546
-->
Permanent Link
Add a Review

 

Library Links

Encore

Search Tools

Language Settings

English
Español