Critical Consciousness

Beyond Impasses in Environmentalism, Psychoanalysis, and Education
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-86414-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 86 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Mental Health

Critical Consciousness provides insight into the antagonism and disputative dialogue present in contemporary discourse.

Taking a broad, pluralistic psychoanalytic perspective, the authors shed light on how and why ideology and conflict have infiltrated education, environmentalism, and psychoanalysis. This book unpacks forms of indoctrination and rejection of new ideas in environmentalism, considers the desubjectification of the human in mental health "services," and assesses how the educational world needs leaders who can articulate unspoken educational aims that perpetuate inequalities, hidden oppression, and their pathogenic effects on disenfranchised groups. This book takes account of the competing schools of psychoanalysis, their members' dismissiveness and enmity toward each other, and their rationalized resistances to discussion across the aisles. From that viewscape, a challenging path forward is proposed.

Critical Consciousness will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training, and to readers interested in the psychological aspects of dehumanization, competition, and opposing group identity.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scalia III, Joseph

Scalia, Lynne S.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Korruption
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction: Resistance to (R)evolution

Part I: Environmentalism: Lost and Seeking

1 Interlude: From Whence I Came: Wilderness and Psychoanalysis: A Journey of Aesthetics, Desire, and Ethics

2 Environmentalism: The Fight Both Within and Without 3 Interlude: From Whence I Came: Backbone of the World: On the Inherent Value of Wilderness

4 Terra and Demos: A Unified Ethics for Conservation and the Human Quest

5 Must Environmental Leaders Conform? Or Dare We Actually Lead?

Part II: Psychoanalysis: Wars Within

6 Grief and Hope in the Face of the Failing Human Project

7 Critical Consciousness on the Rocks in Psychoanalytic Dogma and Orthodoxy: Training Institutes and the Questions of Practice and Social Activism

8 Deads

Part III: Education

9 Interlude: From Whence I Came – New Teacher

Lynne S. Scalia

10 Critical Consciousness in Public Education: Toward Dignity and Hope in a Rural Community

Conclusion

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph Scalia III, PsyD, is a practicing psychoanalyst, and a social and environmental critic and activist based in Colorado, USA.

Lynne S. Scalia, EdD, is an educator from Montana. She has served as a teacher, school district superintendent, and a high school, middle school, and elementary principal, all in public schools. Her work is informed by psychoanalysis and institutional ethnography. Scalia’s focus is on rurality, critical pedagogy, leadership, and school reform.