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Ernest Becker

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Cultural Anthropology

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Bachelors Sociology City College of New York

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According to Wikipedia, Ernest Becker was an American cultural anthropologist and author of the 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Denial of Death. Biography Early life Ernest Becker was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, to Jewish immigrant parents. Serving in the infantry during World War II, he would help liberate a Nazi concentration camp. After he completed his military service, Becker attended Syracuse University in New York. Upon graduation he joined the U.S. Embassy in Paris as an administrative officer.

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Ernest Becker's Published Works

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The Denial of Death (1973) (721)
Escape from Evil (1975) (488)
The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man (1962) (143)
The Structure of Evil: An Essay on the Unification of the Science of Man (1968) (50)
The revolution in psychiatry (1964) (43)
Socialization, Command of Performance, and Mental Illness (1962) (28)
Moral and Spiritual Values in the Public Schools (1951) (28)
The revolution in psychiatry : the new understanding of man (1964) (25)
The denial of death, New York (The Free Press) 1973. (1973) (22)
The birth and death of meaning : a perspective in psychiatry and anthropology (1963) (20)
The Behavioral Expectations Scale: assessment of expectations for interaction with the mentally ill. (1975) (20)
Angel in Armor: A Post-Freudian Perspective on the Nature of Man. (1969) (19)
Beyond Alienation: A Philosophy of Education for the Crisis of Democracy (1967) (18)
The Function of Male Initiation Ceremonies: A Cross-Cultural Test of an Alternative Hypothesis (1962) (15)
TOWARD A COMPREHENSIVE THEORY OF DEPRESSION: A CROSS‐DISCIPLINARY APPRAISAL OF OBJECTS, GAMES AND MEANING (1962) (13)
Eskimo Psychopathology in the Context of Eskimo Personality and Culture (1963) (12)
The relevance to psychiatry of recent research in anthropology. (1962) (4)
Social Science and Psychiatry: The Coming Challenge (1963) (4)
Psychiatric Disorder among the Yoruba (1965) (3)
Beyond Alienation: A Philosophy of Education for the Crisis of Democracy. (1968) (2)
Review Symposium : Toward the Merger of Animal and Human Studies (1974) (2)
Zen Buddhism "thought reform" (brain-washing), and various psychotherapies (1961) (0)
The central psychologic role of the trance in "Zen therapy" (with an appendant caution for therapeutic research). (1961) (0)
Crisis of the Modern University. Part Two: The Elements of the System. (1971) (0)
The image of man in ernest becker's work and its implications for health education (1981) (0)
Comments on Spiro's Review of“The Birth and Death of Meaning: A Perspective in Psychiatry and Anthropology” (1964) (0)
Further Comments on "Rethinking the Concept 'Primitive'" (1966) (0)

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The Denial of Death