Alienation: plight of modern man?

495 Pages·1972·1.27 MB·English

by  William Christian Bier

Alienation: Plight of Modern Man? Pastoral
title:
Psychology Series, No. 7
author: Bier, William Christian
publisher: Fordham University Press
isbn10 | asin: 0823209504
print isbn13: 9780823209507
ebook isbn13: 9780585195179
language: English
Alienation (Social psychology)--Addresses,
subject
essays, lectures.
publication date: 1972
lcc: HM291.I63 1971eb
ddc: 301.6/2
Alienation (Social psychology)--Addresses,
subject:
essays, lectures.
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Alienation:
Plight of Modern Man?
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The Pastoral Psychology Series,
Number 7
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Alienation:
Plight of Modern Man?
Edited by
William C. Bier, S.J.
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© Copyright 1972 by Fordham University Press
LC: 72-75644
ISBN 0-8232-0950-4
Printed in the United States of America
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface vii
I. Alienation in Historical Perspective 1
Alienation and Reconciliation in the Judaeo-Christian 3
Experience
Joseph A. Bracken, S.J.
Alienation: Marxist Social Category 10
Quentin Lauer, S.J.
II. Alienation in Contemporary Perspective 31
In Ecological Perspective 33
Samuel Z. Klausner
In Psychological Perspective 51
Joseph G. Keegan, S.J.
In Psychiatric Perspective 62
William W. Meissner, S.J.
III. Political and Social Alienation 83
Dimensions of Political Alienation 85
H. Mark Roelofs
Alienation among Minority Groups 94
Madeline H. Engel
Alienation in the Developing Countries 113
Joseph B. Schuyler, S.J.
IV. Alienation of Youth 121
Alienation as a Phenomenon of Youth 123
William C. Kvaraceus
Drug Abuse as a Symptom of Alienation 136
Robert E. Gould
Suicidethe Ultimate in Alienation 141
Charles C. McArthur
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V. Youth Speaks On Alienation 151
Alienation of a Former Drug-Addict 153
Frank Negron
General Alienation of Youth 155
Stuart Vexler
Alienation of College Students 158
L Mark Winston
Post-college Alienation 162
Roger Mooney
Alienation of the Black Man 165
Michael Bryant
VI. Religious Alienation 169
On the Catholic College Campus 171
William C. McFadden, S.J.
Among Priests Today 179
George V. Fogarty
Among Members of Religious Orders 189
Gerald A. McCool, S.J.
VII. Other Manifestations of Alienation 197
Among the Aged 199
Chaim Grunwald
Among the Poor 210
Stephen M. David
Alienation and Homosexuality 219
Robert J. Campbell
VIII. Responses to Alienation 231
From Psychiatry 233
Philip J. Guerin
From Political Science 241
Joseph Cropsey
From Social Science 247
John L. Thomas, S.J.
From Religion 262
William J. Byron, S.J.
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PREFACE
A series of Pastoral Psychology Institutes, sponsored by the
Psychology Department of Fordham University, was begun in 1955.
With the single exception of 1967 when no Institute was given, they
have been offered on an alternate-year basis since their inception. The
volumes in the Pastoral Psychology Series are an outgrowth of the
Institutes, with the current volume containing the papers presented in
the 1971 Institute.
These Institutes, intended originally for the clergy and initially open
only to them, began with a series of topics in which, it was judged, the
behavioral sciences were in a position to make a contribution to
clergymen in their attempt to deal with problems encountered in
pastoral work. In more recent years the Institutes have been opened to
other professional persons in addition to clergymen, and the topics
selected for treatment have been broadened accordingly.
The first two Institutes, those of 1955 and 1957, dealt rather briefly
with a series of topics and were combined for publication into a single
volume, the first in the Pastoral Psychology Series, entitled:
Personality and sexual problems in pastoral psychology. Subsequent
Institutes were devoted to single topics which received more extensive
treatment. The 1959 Institute concerned itself with addiction, before
the drug problem assumed the proportions found today, and appeared
as volume two in the series: Problems in addiction: Alcohol and drug
addiction. The 1961 Institute focused on the teenager and provided
the material for volume three: The adolescent: His search for
understanding. Marriage was the topic of the 1963 Institute and
volume four in the series: Marriage: A psychological and moral
approach. The 1965 Institute concerned itself with the topic of woman
in the Church and in the modern world, and quietly directed attention