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Humanity Against Itself PBH The focus of the bookIn this broad overview of humanity's predicament, psychiatrist Benjamin Kovitz illustrates the parallels between anxiety in the individual and discord in civilisation as a whole. Kovitz emphasises that civilisation rests upon the precarious foundation of human nature, with its age old tendencies toward self deception, violence, and pursuit of power. He argues that resistance to facing our hidden motives is what lies at the core of political and