1. The loneliness and anxiety of modern man
Anxiety and the threat to the self
2. The roots of our malady
The loss of the center of values in our society
The loss of the sense of self
The loss of our language for personal communication
"Little we see in nature that is ours"
The loss of the sense of tragedy
pt. 2 Rediscovering selfhood
3. The experience of becoming a person
Self-contempt, a substitute for self-worth
Consciousness of self is not introversion
The experiencing of one's body and feelings
Cutting the psychological umbilical cord
The struggle against mother
The struggle against one's own dependency
Stages in consciousness of self
pt. 3 The goals of integration
5. Freedom and inner strength
The man who was put in a cage
Hatred and resentment as the price of denied freedom
6. The creative conscience
source of strength or weakness?
The creative use of the past
The person's power to do the valuing
7. Courage, the virtue of maturity
8. Man, the transcender of time
Man does not live by the clock alone
"In the light of eternity"