The Selfish Society: How We All Forgot to Love One Another and Made Money Instead - Softcover

Gerhardt, Sue

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847396763 ISBN 13: 9781847396761

Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK, 2011

Synopsis

Ambitious and wide-ranging, The Selfish Societyreveals the vital importance of understanding our early emotional lives, arguing that by focusing on the attention we give to our young children we can create a better society.

Open any newspaper,and what do you find? Violence and crime, child abuse and neglect, expenses scandals, addiction, fraud and corruption, environmental melt-down

Is Britain indeed broken? How did modern society get to this point? Who is to blame? How can we change?

We have come to inhabit a culture of selfish individualism which has confused material well-being with happiness. As society became bigger and more competitive, working life was cut off from child-rearing and the new economics ignored people's emotional needs. We have lived with this culture so long that it is hard to imagine it being any different. Yet we are now at a turning point where the need for change is becoming urgent. If we are to build a more reflective and collaborative society, Gerhardt argues, we need to support the caring qualities that are learnt in early life and integrate them into our political and economic thinking.

Inspiring and thought-provoking, The Selfish Society sets out a roadmap to a more positive and compassionate future.

About this title

Review:

"A vitally important book--a must-read for every parent, teacher, physician and politician." --Daniel Goleman, author, "Emotional Intelligence," on "Why Love Matters"

About the Author:

SUE GERHARDT is a practising psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She wrote the bestselling Why Love Matters, an accessible account of the neuroscience of early development.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1847396763
• ISBN 13: 9781847396761
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400