Ernest Becker
Impact in
- Social Psychology top 5%
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs
- Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Clinical Psychology top 10%
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
Papers in ⓘ
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- Mental Health and Psychiatry 2
- Theology and Philosophy of Evil 1
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- Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs 1
Ernest Becker
21 papers receiving 425 citations
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 77
- Social Psychology 263
- Clinical Psychology 181
- Health 70
- Applied Psychology 37
- Philosophy 52
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All Works
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| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Escape from Evil | 1975 | 245 |
| 2 | The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man | 1962 | 96 |
| 3 | The Structure of Evil: An Essay on the Unification of the Science of Man | 1968 | 36 |
| 4 | The revolution in psychiatry | 1964 | 33 |
| 5 | The Revolution in Psychiatry: The New Understanding of Man | 1974 | 21 |
| 6 | 1962 | 20 | |
| 7 | 1962 | 18 | |
| 8 | 1968 | 14 | |
| 9 | 1963 | 13 | |
| 10 | Angel in Armor: A Post-Freudian Perspective on the Nature of Man. | 1969 | 10 |
| 11 | 1962 | 10 | |
| 12 | 1962 | 5 | |
| 13 | Zen: A rational critique. | 1961 | 4 |
| 14 | 1962 | 3 | |
| 15 | 1961 | 3 | |
| 16 | 1962 | 3 | |
| 17 | 1963 | 2 | |
| 18 | 1962 | 2 | |
| 19 | 1968 | 2 | |
| 20 | 1974 | 1 |
About Ernest Becker
Ernest Becker is a scholar working on Philosophy, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health and Education, having authored 24 papers that have together received 543 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (2 papers), Mental Health and Psychiatry (2 papers), Critical and Liberation Pedagogy (2 papers), Neurology and Historical Studies (1 paper), Psychology of Development and Education (1 paper), Theology and Philosophy of Evil (1 paper), Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs (1 paper) and Geographies of human-animal interactions (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Social Psychology (263 citations), Clinical Psychology (181 citations), Health (70 citations), Applied Psychology (37 citations) and Philosophy (52 citations). Ernest Becker has collaborated with scholars based in United States and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Arnold M. Rose and Alfred McClung Lee. Their work appears in journals such as American Sociological Review, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, The Journal of Higher Education, Psychiatry and American Journal of Psychiatry.
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