Chris Steed – författare

The Significance of High Value in Human Behaviour is an innovative conceptualisation of how the quest for a high self-worth works as a psychosocial dynamic, presenting the idea that feelings of impotence and low self-esteem induce a powerful impetus on negative human action. This book gives an account of what it means to base a whole psychological perspective on high value, which has been an understudied aspect of human action.

Employing an ethnographical approach, the book uses client observations and social research to promote original solutions in an empathetic and engaging manner for psychological support services aiding isolated individuals. It considers the concept of a valuable self and examines the negative effects within the personality which can be generated when this drive for a valuable self is blocked through human devaluation or violence.

The Significance of High Value in Human Behaviour will appeal to academics and post-graduate students in the fields of psychology and psychotherapy, psychotherapists with specialist interests in loneliness and self-worth, and sociologists concerned with the psychology of the self.

The Significance of High Value in Human Behaviour is an innovative conceptualisation of how the quest for a high self-worth works as a psychosocial dynamic, presenting the idea that feelings of impotence and low self-esteem induce a powerful impetus on negative human action. This book gives an account of what it means to base a whole psychological perspective on high value, which has been an understudied aspect of human action.

Employing an ethnographical approach, the book uses client observations and social research to promote original solutions in an empathetic and engaging manner for psychological support services aiding isolated individuals. It considers the concept of a valuable self and examines the negative effects within the personality which can be generated when this drive for a valuable self is blocked through human devaluation or violence.

The Significance of High Value in Human Behaviour will appeal to academics and post-graduate students in the fields of psychology and psychotherapy, psychotherapists with specialist interests in loneliness and self-worth, and sociologists concerned with the psychology of the self.

Chris and Stephen off Gogglebox are known and loved by millions of viewers for their outrageous humour, filthy language and adorable sausage dogs. But there''s a lot more to them than that. The ex-partners have both had their fair share of ups and downs, and here in their joint memoir they carry us through their experiences on a wave of hilarious back-and-forth conversations and killer one-liners. From their childhoods to finding fame on Gogglebox, nothing is off-limits.Stephen: "Going to the allotment was something we''d look forward to. Especially when it got dark and we used to nick everyone''s vegetables"Chris: "We lived in this flint house on the edge of the cemetery, and not surprisingly it was really haunted."Funny, frank and pretty ridiculous, this is the perfect book for any Gogglebox fan.

Tuning into seven big themes of human existence playing in post-pandemic times. Is there a symphony that can make sense of the music of the world?

How do we navigate life when everything is unpredictable? With Covid taking such a toll, how did the universe come to consciousness with this absurd notion that we matter? How did we come up with concepts of God, physics, trust or love or was it all the product of chemical reactions?

Should I just follow that which lies within me? How can I find forgiveness to clear away the regrets that pile up like a car crash?

What about great questions of human existence today; of the oppression under the sun, of justice, of a planet in peril, of response to those who have no power, no food and no voice? Despite our capacity for compassion, why don''t we recognise the evils in which we are complicit?

What news of the future, of purpose and a shoreline beyond this one?

What is it about us, that we trouble ourselves with the riddle of life itself?

An old book and an even older story might just have insights for a new and better way that are unnerving and comforting in equal measure.

Chris writes as a Christian and is intrigued by what we believe is ultimate. We are betrayed by secret knowledge. Cast in mystical prose, this short book will take us beyond what we''re stuck in right now and help us change and light up in a different way.....