Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- The Omote and Ura of Western Psychology.- Overview of the Chapters in This Volume.- References.- I. How Self-Defeating Behaviors Develop and Persist.- 2 Belief Perseverance and Self-Defeating Behavior.- 3 Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and Self-Defeating Behavior.- 4 Trying and Giving Up: Persistence and Lack of Persistence in Failure Situations.- II. Self-Defeating Responses to the Threat of Unpleasant Outcomes.- 5 Excuses Gone Awry: An Analysis of Self-Defeating Excuses.- 6 Making Things Harder for Yourself: Pride and Joy.- 7 Fear of Success.- 8 Choosing to Suffer or to…? Empirical Studies and Clinical Theories of Masochism.- 9 Toward an Understanding of Self-Defeating Responses Following Victimization.- 10 Learned Helplessness.- III. When Situational Responses Become Personality Dispositions.- 11 Self-Handicapping Behavior and the Self-Defeating Personality Disorder: Toward a Refined Clinical Perspective.- 12 Controversies Concerning the Self-Defeating Personality Disorder.- 13 The Paradox of the Self: A Psychodynamic and Social-Cognitive Integration.- IV. Conclusions.- 14 Integration: Conditions under Which Self-Defeating and Self-Enhancing Behaviors Develop.- Author Index.

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