A Jungian Analysis of Toxic Modern Society: Fighting the Culture of Loneliness [Hardcover]

Using evidence from anthropology, neuroscience, psychiatry, analytical psychology and evolutionary biology, within this book Dr Erik Goodwyn explores the current cultural psyche, and how elements of modern society are contributing to the current loneliness epidemic.

Erik Goodwyn, MD, is Clinical Faculty with the Billings Clinic, part of the WWAMI University of Washington School of MedicineBillings Montana affiliate, Department of Psychiatry and part of the adjunct faculty for both the University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky. He has authored numerous publications in the field of consciousness studies, Jungian psychology, neuroscience, mythology, philosophy, anthropology, and the psychology of religion. www.erikgoodwyn.com

1. Can Culture Be Toxic?  2. The Social Instincts  3. Hyper-Individualism  4. Changes in Family Structure  5. Spirituality  6. Nature Deficiency  7. Education and Mass Media Effects  8. The Achievement-Based Value System  9. Modern Culture and Its Addictions  10. Intimations of a Cure  11. TribalismThe Dose Makes the Poison  12. The Meaning-Making Organ  13. The Quest for Sustenance

This evocative, informative and wide-ranging study of loneliness does not pretend to offer a cure but instead explores the rising tides of depression, addictions, suicides and anxiety disorders and the reasons behind them. Dr Goodwyn argues that the present emphasis on individual medication and individual psychotherapy tends to ignore the community and the influence of sociocultural factors and their effect in the decline of mental health, particularly in the US. He suggests that we look carefully at the debilitating nature of our modern infrastructures, their fast competitive, impersonal pace and their consummate consumerism. Such societal structures leavl³+