A social psychologist—“a recovering perfectionist”—argues that perfectionism is a “hidden epidemic”
as an example). The third and most troublesome kind is the form imputed to society: “an all-encompassing belief that everybody, at all times, expects us to be perfect”. Its victims can feel lonely; research shows that there are links between perfectionism and self-harm and suicide.
A less familiar culprit is Don Hamachek, an American psychologist, who in the 1970s coined the term “normal perfectionism”, thereby legitimising morbid self-criticism, says Mr Curran. He even reproaches Barack Obama for enjoining young people to learn from their mistakes. Instead, he says, failures should be “allowed to simply wash through us as a joyous reminder of what it means to be a fallible human”.
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