On Sham, Vulnerability and Other Forms of Self-Deception

Publisher:  Random House, Toronto, Canada
Year First Published:  1953
Year Published:  1973
Pages:  234pp   ISBN:  0-394-71970-0
Resource Type:  Book

Twelve essays in which Jules Henry explores sham, the self-defensive falsity necessary for the individual's survival within this society, and the sense of vulnterability that proscribes and inhibits individual behaviour and enlightenment.

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Table of Contents

The Culture of Interpersonal Relations in a Therapeutic Institution for Emotionally Disturbed Children
Personality and Ageing - with Special Reference to Hospitals for the Aged Poor
Space and Power on a Psychiatric Unit
A Theory for an Anthropological Analysis of American Culture
Vulnerability: Sources of Man's Fear in Himself and in Society
Values: Guilt, Suffering, and Consequences Sham
Forty-Year-Old Jitters in Married Urban Women
The United States: From Barbarism to Decadence without Civilization?
Social and Psychological Preparation for War
Cross-Cultural Education
Ecumenism: An Anthropological View