Taking a "post-postmodern" approach to the current crisis in psychology, this text is at once a narrative of the family history of philosophy, modern science and psychology, and a critique of methodology in current psychological practice. Arguing that psychology today is a pseudoscientific hoax, the authors deconstruct three of its most powerful myths: the myth of the individual; the myth of mental health; and the myth of development. They tell the story of how these myths were constructed out of age-old philosophical abstractions to create a world and a discourse of godlike psychological objects. Synthesizing the anti-foundationalism of two "pre-modernists", Lev Vygotsky and Ludwig Wittgenstein, the authors urge the construction of a distinctly unscientific psychology - an approach to understanding that human life is cultural, relational, and performatory rather than scientific.
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FRED NEWMAN is Director of Training at The East Side Institute for Short-term Psychotherapy in New York City.
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great book, but this is a simple reprint of the 1996 book,
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This is an excellent book that promotes a critical view of psychology. However, the first edition came out in 1996 and this 2006 edition is a simple reprint, with nothing new (not even the preface!) in it.
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- Performing Psychology: A Postmodern Culture of the Mind by Lois Holzman in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Pathology and the Postmodern: Mental Illness as Discourse and Experience (Inquiries in Social Construction series) by Dwight Fee in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Furthering Talk: Advances in the Discursive Therapies by Thomas Strong in Front Matter
- Performing Psychology: A Postmodern Culture of the Mind by Lois Holzman in Back Matter
- Postmodern Psychologies, Societal Practice, and Political Life by Lois Holzman in Front Matter
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