{"product_id":"resilient-identities-self-relationships-and-the-construction-of-social-reality-9780813391182","title":"Resilient Identities: Self, Relationships, and the Construction of Social Reality","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): William Swann\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Basic Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Personality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce considered the province of \"New Age\" groups, the self-esteem movement has been catapulted into the American mainstream, with a California task force and other groups now claiming that raising self-esteem is the panacea for social ills from alcoholism to poor grades and poverty.In this wide-ranging and strikingly original book, William Swann not only dissects the mistaken assumptions that underlie current self-esteem programs, but also incisively analyzes the nature of self-worth and the \"self-traps\" that make achieving and sustaining a sense of self-esteem so difficult.Drawing on more than a decade of research, much of it his own, Swann reveals the surprising regularity with which people suffering from low self-esteem gravitate to relationships in which they are denigrated or abused. Swann shows how such people are caught in a crossfire of conflicting desires for praise and for confirmation of their negative self-views. He persuasively argues that our feelings of self-worth can only be understood as part of a larger, intricate dynamic involving society as well as the self.Not a self-help book, Resilient Identities offers a fascinating, controversial exploration of how self-esteem conflicts develop and are played out in all of our relationships. And it discusses what we can do to encourage and sustain feelings of self-worth in our society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46896904437911,"sku":"9780813391182","price":2887.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780813391182.webp?v=1770360348","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/resilient-identities-self-relationships-and-the-construction-of-social-reality-9780813391182","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}