UID:
almahu_9948233779502882
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 222 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511752179 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in the history of psychology
Content:
Inventing Our Selves proposes a radical new approach to the analysis of our current regime of the self, and the values of autonomy, identity, individuality, liberty, and choice that animate it. It argues that psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and other 'psy' disciplines have played a key role in 'inventing our selves', changing the ways in which human beings understand and act upon themselves, and how they are acted upon by politicians, managers, doctors, therapists, and a multitude of other authorities. These mutations are intrinsically linked to recent changes in ways of understanding and exercising political power, which have stressed the values of autonomy, personal responsibility, and choice. This critical history diagnoses and destabilises our contemporary 'condition' of the self, to help us think differently about the kind of persons we are, or might become.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521434140
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511752179
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511752179
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