Peter T. Dunlap

Awakening our Faith in the Future (eBook, ePUB)

The Advent of Psychological Liberalism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What transformation would happen if we could combine the best of liberal politics with psychology?Awakening our Faith in the Future investigates the avenues for creating a new branch of psychology, a transformative political psychology. In the past, political psychology has focused directly on analysis and knowledge acquisition, rather than on interventions that transform self and culture. A transformative political psychology combines the best of traditional social science with the transformative intent of clinical psychology in order to create a new political culture. Peter T. Dunlap suggests that while liberals focus intently outside of themselves on changing the world, those with psychological interests focus much more internally on changing themselves. In this book, he argues that by combining political liberalism and psychology, and encouraging psychologists to develop cultural learning practices based on ideas of self-knowledge, there is opportunity to transform our political culture.Divided into five parts, this book explores:stories of political destinyquestions of developmentopportunities for political developmenta speculative theory of cultural evolutionpractices of a political psychologist.This scholarly text uses personal experiences and the stories of progressive political leaders as pathways for addressing political problems, making it ideal reading for professionals and students in the fields of both politics and psychology as well as for activists interested in the future of liberalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317723738
• Artikelnr.: 44476005

Autorenporträt

Peter T. Dunlap is a political and clinical psychologist working in private and political practice. Peter works with political change groups, using educational, healing, and community engagement learning practices. His research includes an investigation into the political development of progressive political leaders titled Destiny as Capacity: The Transformation of Political Identity in Human Development.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Stories of Destiny. The Liberal's Emotional Body Opens Our Faith in
the Future. Consolidating the Felt-sense of the Future into the Capacity
for Destiny. Stories of Destiny. Part II: Questions of Development. From
Political to Psychological Liberalism: Freedom in Psychological
Development. The Variety of Uses of the Idea of 'Development.' From Image
to Institution. Part III: Opportunities for Political Development.
Political Development and Emotion. The Rhythms of Political Development.
Part IV: A Speculative Theory of Cultural Evolution. A Theory of Cultural
Evolution and a New Story of Liberalism. A Theory of Cultural Evolution and
the Advent of Psychological Liberalism. The Current Liberal Identity and
the Emergence of the Psychological Citizen. Part V: Practices of a
Political Psychologist. Imagining a Transformative Political Psychologist
and a Psychological Citizen. Attending to the Prejudices of Liberalism.
Deepening the Conceptual Frame for a Public-psychological Liberalism.