1st Edition
Performing Psychology A Postmodern Culture of the Mind
Edited By Lois Holzman
Copyright 1999
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
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
Biography
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).
"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
