Social Symptoms of Identity Needs - Why We Have Failed to Solve Our Social Problems and What to do About It (Hardcover)

Explains how our major social problems, including crime, violence, terrorism, war, substance abuse, and prejudice, are the result of efforts by their perpetrators to maintain a secure identity, or sense of self. It locates the root causes of these social problems and counterproductive responses in certain identity-damaging social and cultural pheno