Performing Psychology: A Postmodern Culture of the Mind

by Lois Holzman (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415922043
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/11/1999
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1280L (what's this?)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

" Performing Psychology: A Postmodern Culture of Mind is a rather unusual hybrid of various strands of critical psychology, including an unusual form of therapy combined with arguments about the nature of performance." — APA Review of Books

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