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————————————— Table of Contents —————————————
  • The Book in a few sentences
  • Personal Opinion
  • SUMMARY
  • INTRODUCTION
    • Vice or Virtue
    • The mask of inviolability
    • Happiness in violability
  • PART I - BEHIND THE MASK
    • CHAPTER 1 - HOW PERFECTIONISTS THINK
      • First insight on perfectionists
      • The psyché apparatus of Pism
      • The should-is-must model
      • The perfect past
      • Perfectionism and psychological disorders
    • CHAPTER 2 - THE CONTROVERSIAL ASPIRATION
      • Excellence, and what else?
      • Good job
      • The Big Five
      • Why do we need conscientiousness?
      • Not everybody is a Shakespeare
    • CHAPTER 3 - THE ROOTS OF PERFECTIONISM: THE EGO
      • Egocentrism
      • The absolutism of partial goals & internal contradiction
      • Fear as the root of egocentrism
      • The neurotic compulsion
    • CHAPTER 4 - IT CANNOT BE WHAT SHOULD NOT BE
      • Repression of the own imperfection
    • CHAPTER 5 - WHAT THE RESEARCH SAYS
      • The 7 Components of Perfectionism
        • 1. Error in reasoning
        • 2. Mistake sensitivity
        • 3. Competitive comparisson
        • 4. Unorganized Order
        • 5. Inflexibility and lack of vision
        • 6. Pride and Arrogance
        • 7. Black-and-white mentality
  • PART II - THE MIGHT OF THE MASK
    • CHAPTER 6 - THE PERFORMANCE SOCIETY
    • CHAPTER 7 - SLIMNESS AND HEALTH MANIA
      • Anorexia
      • Orthorexia
    • CHAPTER 8 - BEAUTY MANIA
      • Surgery as a substitute for therapy
    • CHAPTER 9 - PERFECTIONISM IN EDUCATION AND PARTNERSHIP
      • Intrusiveness
      • Religious perfectionists
  • PART III - THE FALL OF THE MASK
    • CHAPTER 10 - PSYCHOTHERAPY
      • Processing fear
      • Temperance
      • Efficiency
      • Envy and Humbleness
    • CHAPTER 11 - IMPERFECTION TOLERANCE
    • CHAPTER 12 - PERFECTIONISTS ON THE COUCH

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