Deciding: Self-Deception in Life Choices

by Tod Sloan

Looks at the uncertainty of making major decisions, discusses specific individual cases, and covers the process of decision making, psychoanalysis, life structures and projects, transitions, and authenticity

170 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1987

About the author

Tod Stratton Sloan
Tod Sloan completed his Ph.D. in personality psychology (with clinical training) at the University of Michigan in 1982. He taught psychology at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma from 1982 to 2000, where he also founded the Center for Community Research and Development. After serving for several years as the national co-coordinator of Psychologists for Social Responsibility, he served from 2004-2018 as a Professor in the Department of Counseling Psychology in the Graduate School at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Sloan has also been a visiting professor in Venezuela, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Brazil, and Mexico. He currently focuses on using dialogue to support grassroots activists in progressive social movements for sustainability and social justice.