Performing Psychology

A Postmodern Culture of the Mind
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-415-92204-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 504 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holzman, Lois

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie Kulturpsychologie, Ethnopsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Verkehrspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Geschichte der Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Angewandte Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Berufe, Ausbildung
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Beratungspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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 of Learning, with Fred Newman (Routledge, 1996).