Performing Psychology (eBook, PDF)

A Postmodern Culture of the Mind
Redaktion: Holzman, Lois

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Produktbeschreibung

More than an academic critique, Performing Psychology offers a new methodology for understanding human life. Arguing that both psychological activity and its study are essentially performance, Neuman and his colleagues expose the myths of mainstream psychology and the limitations of its postmodern challengers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135962104
• Artikelnr.: 42984028

Autorenporträt

Lois Holzman is Director of Educational Programs at the East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy in New York. Among her publications are Schools for Growth:Radical Alternatives to Current Educational Models (1997) and The End of Knowing: A New Developmental Way ofLearning, with Fred Newman (Routledge, 1996).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 5
Life Upon the Wicked Stage
Life As Performance (Can You Practice Psychology If There's Nothing That's "Really" Going On?)
Diagnosis: The Human Cost of the Rage to Order
Beyond Narrative to Performed Conversation ("In the Beginning" Comes Much Later)
A Therapeutic Deconstruction of the Illusion of Self Science
Can Do Better than Sokal: A Commentary on the So-called Science Wars
The Story of Truth (A Whodunit) or Philosophie dans la Théâtre
Twenty-Two Weeks of Pointless Conversation
What Is to Be Dead? (Philosophical Scenes