Performing Psychology : A Postmodern Culture of the Mind

ISBN-13: 9780415922050 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 236 str.

Lois Holzman

Opis

This volume addresses tensions that exist between two opposing approaches to psychology, the experimental/empirical and the cultural/humanistic approach. The author analyzes a series of writings by and about Fred Newman, the controversial American philosopher, psychotherapist, playwright and political activist. The resulting discussion addresses such questions as: what defines psychological method?; what is the subject matter of psychology?; and what does postmodern criticism of psychology look like?

Recenzje

"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

O autorze

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).