CONTENTS

Praise for The Coddling of the American Mind

Also by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haid

Title Page

Copyright

Epigraph

Dedication

INTRODUCTION | The Search for Wisdom

PART I

Three Bad Ideas

CHAPTER 1 | The Untruth of Fragility: What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Weaker

CHAPTER 2 | The Untruth of Emotional Reasoning: Always Trust Your Feelings

CHAPTER 3 | The Untruth of Us Versus Them: Life Is a Battle Between Good People and Evil People

PART II

Bad Ideas in Action

CHAPTER 4 | Intimidation and Violence

CHAPTER 5 | Witch Hunts

PART III

How Did We Get Here?

CHAPTER 6 | The Polarization Cycle

CHAPTER 7 | Anxiety and Depression

CHAPTER 8 | Paranoid Parenting

CHAPTER 9 | The Decline of Play

CHAPTER 10 | The Bureaucracy of Safetyism

CHAPTER 11 | The Quest for Justice

PART IV

Wising Up

CHAPTER 12 | Wiser Kids

CHAPTER 13 | Wiser Universities

CONCLUSION | Wiser Societies

Acknowledgments

Appendix 1: How to Do CBT

Appendix 2: The Chicago Statement on Principles of Free Expression

Notes

References

Index

About the Authors