The Off-Modern: Psychology Estranged

The Off-Modern: Psychology Estranged

by Ron Roberts
The Off-Modern: Psychology Estranged

The Off-Modern: Psychology Estranged

by Ron Roberts

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Overview

Society is undergoing a process of deep change and transformation as the neoliberal order moves into crisis. Contemporary psychology, mired in exceptionalism and individualism, fails to address this broader context and continues with a fragmented reductionist approach which is alienating to students and practitioners alike. In the lifetime of the discipline there have been several distinct frameworks to emerge - psychoanalytic, behaviourist and cognitive. To these one might add Kelly's Personal Construct Theory as the last attempt to present a coherent and challenging framework for how to understand our lives. As society moves into a new phase, Ron Roberts argues the need for a new way of ‘doing' psychology which challenges not only the existing epistemological and reductionist outlook, but the centrality of a scientific professional discourse as a suitable vehicle for improving lives and making sense of the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781785355950
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 09/29/2017
Pages: 232
Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.65(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Ron Roberts is a Chartered Psychologist and Honorary Lecturer in Psychology at Kingston University with over 30 years' experience in Higher Education. He is the author of seven other books.

Table of Contents

Preface 1

Acknowledgements 5

1 Introduction: Psychology, Old and New? 6

2 From Alienation to Estrangement 32

3 Toward an Off-Modern Psychology 69

4 Psychology of the Off-Modern: Psychogeography 86

5 Estrangement, Psychotherapy and Counselling 113

6 The Tao of Estrangement: Martial Art, Psychology and Reality 154

7 After Words and Last Words 181

Endnotes 194

References 202

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