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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.
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Performing Psychology consists of essays and stage plays by and about Fred Newman, the controversial American philosopher, psychotherapist, playwright and political activist for whom psychology, social action, human development and performance are one. The reader is invited into dialogues currently taking place among psychologists, philosophers, artists, and community activists on such topics as: the nature of human subjectivity; the relationship of theater to human development; the status of traditional science in a postmodern world; the process of therapy and diagnosis; and the re-initiation of creativity and growth.
Arguing that both psychological activity and its study are essentially performance, Newman and his colleagues expose the myths of mainstream psychology and the limitations of its postmodern challengers. More than an academic critique, Performing Psychology offers a new methodology for understanding human life.
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JEAN PIAGET and LEV VYGOTSKY sit frozen at a small cafe table as the song "Life Upon the Wicked Stage" from Showboat plays. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
developmental theatre, therapeutic deconstruction, mainstream scientific psychology, new developmental way, unscientific psychology, social therapy, wicked stage, revolutionary scientist, developmental performance, mental language, narrative therapists, relational activity, relational life Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Baal Shem Tov, Fred Newman, Lev Vygotsky, American Psychological Association, Herman Umbeck, Castillo Theatre, Harvard University Press, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Social Text, Stage Street, Cambridge University Press, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Castillo International, Professor Umbeck, San Francisco, City College, Comrade Lenin, Kenneth Gergen, Lawrence Erlbaum, Madame Chairwoman, Soviet Union, United States, University Place, Zone Street New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
JEAN PIAGET and LEV VYGOTSKY sit frozen at a small cafe table as the song "Life Upon the Wicked Stage" from Showboat plays. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
developmental theatre, therapeutic deconstruction, mainstream scientific psychology, new developmental way, unscientific psychology, social therapy, wicked stage, revolutionary scientist, developmental performance, mental language, narrative therapists, relational activity, relational life Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Baal Shem Tov, Fred Newman, Lev Vygotsky, American Psychological Association, Herman Umbeck, Castillo Theatre, Harvard University Press, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Social Text, Stage Street, Cambridge University Press, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Castillo International, Professor Umbeck, San Francisco, City College, Comrade Lenin, Kenneth Gergen, Lawrence Erlbaum, Madame Chairwoman, Soviet Union, United States, University Place, Zone Street New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist (Critical Psychology) by Lois Holzman on 11 pages
- The Myth of Psychology by Fred Newman in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Philosophical Investigations (3rd Edition) by Ludwig Wittgenstein on page 77, and page 120
- The End of Knowing: A New Developmental Way of Learning by Fred Newman on page 2, and Back Matter
- What Is to Be Done? by Nikolai Chernyshevsky on page 209, and page 213
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- Narrative Identities: Psychologists Engaged In Self-construction by George Yancy on page 113, and Back Matter
- Furthering Talk: Advances in the Discursive Therapies by Thomas Strong in Front Matter
- Postmodern Psychologies, Societal Practice, and Political Life by Lois Holzman in Front Matter
- Postmodern Psychologies, Societal Practice, and Political Life by Lois Holzman in Front Matter
- Pathology and the Postmodern: Mental Illness as Discourse and Experience (Inquiries in Social Construction series) by Dwight Fee in Back Matter
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