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Self-control

Here are entered works on the ability to inhibit either impulsive or goal-seeking behavior for the sake of a more inclusive goal. Works on the psychological make-up of people with a well-guarded self, little or no need for deep relationships, and who see themselves as efficient and superior, are entered under Self-containment (Personality trait)

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Control (Psychology)
• Discipline

• Self-control -- Juvenile fiction
• Habit breaking

• Self-discipline
• Self-mastery

• Stepping Heavenward, by E. Prentiss (Gutenberg text)
• Stepping Heavenward (New York: A. D. F. Randolph and Co., c1869), by E. Prentiss (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Clearing the Air: Quit Smoking Today, by National Cancer Institute (U.S.) (HTML and PDF at smokefree.gov)
• Tobacco and the Clinician: Interventions for Medical and Dental Practice, by National Cancer Institute (U.S.) (PDF files at cancer.gov)
• Pharmacological Adjuncts in Smoking Cessation, ed. by John Grabowski and Sharon M. Hall (PDF at NIH)

• Reducing Tobacco Use: A Report of the Surgeon General (2000), by United States Department of Health and Human Services (PDF files at nih.gov)
• Community-Based Interventions for Smokers: The COMMIT Field Experience, by National Cancer Institute (U.S.) (PDF files at cancer.gov)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Authoritarians (c2006), by Bob Altemeyer (multiple formats with commentary at theauthoritarians.org)

• La Femme et le Pantin: Roman Espagnol (in French; 1898), by Pierre Louÿs (Gutenberg text)
• A Modern Mephistopheles; and A Whisper in the Dark (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1914), by Louisa May Alcott (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Recovering From Churches That Abuse (c1994), by Ronald M. Enroth (HTML at apologetics.org)

• Churches That Abuse (c1992), by Ronald M. Enroth (HTML at apologeticsindex.org)

• Brain-Washing: Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics (with Goff introduction, and Hubbard terminology in main text; ca. 1956), contrib. by L. Ron Hubbard and Kenneth Goff (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, And Brainwashing (main text all present, bibliography incomplete; 1956), by Joost Meerloo (HTML at lermanet.com)
• Communist Psychological Warfare (Brainwashing): Consultation With Edward Hunter, Author and Foreign Correspondent, Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session, March 13, 1958 (Washington: GPO, 1958), by United States House Committee on Un-American Activities, contrib. by Edward Hunter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Brain-Washing: Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics, contrib. by L. Ron Hubbard (HTML and PDF with commentary at xenu-directory.net)
• Brave New World Revisited (c1958), by Aldous Huxley (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in China (first edition; New York: W. W. Norton and Co., c1961), by Robert Jay Lifton (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Nature of Psychological Maturity (1978), by Paul Rosenfels (HTML with commentary at rosenfels.org)

• The Romance of Lust (based on a 4-volume 1892 edition) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Way of a Man with a Maid (from a 1908 edition) (RTF at archive.org)

• The First and Second Books of Discipline, by Church of Scotland (HTML at Still Waters)

• A (Pretended) Visitor Visited, For Not Visiting According to His Bounden Duty Required by Ancient and Modern Canons (also has Hebrew title; London: Printed by H. Clark for the author, 1690) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reflection, in Vindication of One Arch-Deacon (and Consequently of All) from the Scurrilous and Groundless Invectives Against Him (Besides Several Other More Eminent Persons) in a Late Scandalous Pamplet, Intituled, A Pretended Visitor Visited (London: Printed for A. Churchil, 1690) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Confessions: The Philosophy of Transparency (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2012), by Thomas Docherty (HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury)
• Startling Facts: or, Deeds of Darkness Disclosed Relative to Auricular Confession, and its Relations to Sacerdotal Celibacy, Convents, Monasteries, Morality, and Civil and Religious Liberty (Cincinnati: Pub. by the author, 1875), by J. G. White
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Our Duty to the Children, by William L. Worcester (HTML at Swedenborg Digital Library)

• Report of the Executive Board of District Assembly 126, K. of L., Upon the Trouble of L.A.'s 2985, 4235, and 4717, K. of L. (1887), by Knights of Labor District Assembly 126 (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (c1963), by Joseph Murphy (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Mental Culture in Burmese Crisis Politics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy (1999), by Gustaaf Houtman (HTML at tesco.net)
• Psychological Exercises (New York: Farrar and Rinehart, c1930), ed. by A. R. Orage (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mind-Training: A Practical System for Developing Self-Confidence, Memory, Mental Concentration and Character (Chicago: Human Science School, c1905), by Victor Gabriel Rocine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Power of Will (305th edition; Meriden, CT: Pelgon Publishing Co., 1919), by Frank C. Haddock (HTML and PDF at arfalpha.com)

• Arming the Torturers: Electro-Shock Torture and the Spread of Stun Technology (1997), by Amnesty International (HTML and PDF at amnesty.org)

• School Government, by Frederick Swartz Jewell (page images at MOA)

• Manual, or Guide Book, for the Administration of the Discipline of the African M. E. Church (Baltimore: Hoffman and Co., ca. 1876), by A. W. Wayman (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Bhikkus' Rules, A Guide for Laypeople: The Theravadin Buddhist Monk's Rules Compiled and Explained, by Phikkhu Ariyesako (HTML at Access to Insight)

• Lay Buddhist Practice: The Shrine Room, Uposatha Day, Rains Residence, by Bhikkhu Khantipalo (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Uposatha Sila: The Eight-Precept Observance, by Somdet Phra Phutthakhōsāčhān (Čharœ̄n), trans. by Bhikkhu Kantasilo (HTML at Access to Insight)

• The Christian Home (Chicago: Francisan Herald Press, 1938), by Celestine Strub (HTML at EWTN)

• The Perpetual Government of Christ's Church (new edition, with biographical notice; Oxford: At the University Press, 1842), by Thomas Bilson, ed. by Robert Eden (multiple formats at Google)
• The Religion, Discipline and Rites of the Church of England (second edition; London: Rivingtons, 1882), by John Cosin, trans. by Frederick Meyrick, contrib. by Edward Hyde Clarendon
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The First and Second Books of Discipline, by Church of Scotland (HTML at Still Waters)
• The Order of Excommunication and of Public Repentance, by John Knox (HTML at Still Waters)

• Ecclesiastical Polity, by National Council of Congregational Churches Committee on Church Polity (page images at MOA)

• A Treatise on the Christian Doctrine of Marriage, by Hugh Davey Evans (page images at MOA)

• The Doctrines and Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church (1876), by Methodist Episcopal Church (page images at MOA)
• Popular Amusements: An Appeal to Methodists, In Regard to the Evils of Card-Playing, Billiards, Dancing, Theatre-Going, Etc., by Hiram Mattison (page images at MOA)

• The Doctrines and Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (1856), by Methodist Episcopal Church, South (page images at MOA)

• Constitution and Discipline of the Methodist Protestant Church (Baltimore: Pub. for the Book Committee of the Methoidst Protestant Church by J. J. Harrod, 1830), by Methodist Protestant Church (U.S. : 1830-1939) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Justice as Prevention: Vetting Public Employees in Transitional Societies (New York: Social Science Research Council, 2007), ed. by Alexander Mayer-Rieckh and Pablo De Greiff (PDF with commentary at ssrc.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.