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Unscientific Psychology A Cultural-Performatory Approach to Understanding Human Life

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ISBN-10: 0595392865

ISBN-13: 9780595392865

Edition: N/A

Authors: Fred Newman, Lois Holzman

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Philosopher and psychotherapist Fred Newman and developmental psychologist Lois Holzman challenge psychologys understandings of what a human being is, what mental illness is, and how people develop and learn. They show how these understandings were created, marketed and sold to the American public. Going beyond critique, the authors argue that instead of psychology, what people the world over need is a cultural, performatory approach to human life.Unscientific Psychologyis based on the authors twenty-five year practice of creating such an approach and the network of therapeutic and educational projects that have been built with it. Unscientific Psychologyis at once a narrative of the…    
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List price: $19.95
Publisher: iUniverse, Incorporated
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 246
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Fred Newman has created voices and sounds for dozens of movies including "Gremlins I" & "II", "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?", and "Practical Magic". He has received two Emmy nominations for his work on PBS's "Between the Lions" and tours regularly with Garrison Keillor on NPR, providing improvised sound effects for "A Prairie Home Companion". He lives in Connecticut and New York City.

LOIS HOLZMAN is Associate Professor of Psychology at Empire State College and a member of the faculty at The East Side Institute for Short-term Psychotherapy.

Preface
Introduction
Some Stories of Philosophy Between the Iliad and the Odyssey
The Glorification of Experience
Modern Philosophy, Psychology, and Logic Psychology's Unheard-of Story
The State and the Mind The New Ontology and Psychology's Mythology
Psychology and the Individual
Psychology's Bestseller
Mental Illness and Mental Health Psychology and Human Development
The Ideal(ist) Marriage
The Practice of Method
A New Epistemology for an Unscientific Psychology
The Non-Interpretive Community and Its Clinical Practice Wittgenstein, Vygotsky, and a Cultural-Performatory
Understanding of Human Life
Bibliography
Index
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