Expanding the Category 'Human' - Nonhumanism, Posthumanism, and Humanistic Psychology

In Expanding the Category "Human": Nonhumanism, Posthumanism, and Humanistic Psychology Patrick Whitehead argues that humanistic psychology must continue its sixty-year-old project of openness of inquiry and acceptance of human beings in order to stay relevant in this ever changing world.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Cult of Humanism in Psychology
Chapter 2: Problem One: Nature's Divisions
Chapter 3: The Importance of Resolving this Division for Humanistic Ecopsychology
Chapter 4: Problem Two: Rejecting Non-Subjective forms of Inquiry
Chapter 5: Subjectivity as a Nonhuman Attribute: All Nature as Flesh
Chapter 6: Problem Three: Rejecting Posthuman Possibilities
Chapter 7: Recognizing how Technology has Shaped Human Being: Towards a Post-Humanisitc Psychology
Chapter 8: The Radical Edge: Object-Oriented Psychology or, the Psychology of Things
References
About the Author

About the author

Patrick M. Whitehead is assistant professor of psychology at Albany State University.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Whitehead, Patrick M. Whitehead, Whitehead Patrick M.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.10.2019
• EAN: 9781498559379
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5937-9
• No. of pages: 182
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism, humanistic psychology, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Humanist philosophy, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Humanistic, Humanistic Psychology;Pehnomenology;Philosophy;Psychology