Life Choices: Understanding Dilemmas and Decisions

ISBN-13: 9780367316686 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 174 str.

Tod Sloan

Opis

This book may be viewed as an ?antiguide? to decisionmaking. It rejects mechanical formulas and urges self-reflection and a critique of ideology. Through close readings of fifteen life history interviews, Tod Sloan creates a framework for the interpretation of dilemmas and decisions. Ultimately, we see that a life choice or turning point comprises

Spis treści

The problem of choice; life history; life structure; psychologies of decision-making; life spheres; transitions; life projects; authenticity; ideology; back to the future.

O autorze

Tod Sloan is associate professor of psychology at the University of Tulsa. As a Fulbright scholar, he has lectured in Venezuela and Nicaragua. He is also the author of Damaged Life: The Crisis of the Modern Psyche.