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This timely collection asks the reader to consider how society's modern notion of humans as rational, isolated individuals has contributed to psychological and social problems and oppressive power structures.
List of contents
Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: Intergenerational Strains
Chapter 1. Open Wounds: Discerning, Owning, and Narrating Deep History
Chapter 2. Frantz Fanon and Psychopathology: The Progressive Infrastructure of
Black Skin, White Masks Chapter 3. American Cultural Symbolism of Rage and Resistance in Collective Trauma: Racially-Influenced Political Myths, Counter-Myths, Projective Identification, and the Evocation of Transcendent Humanity
Chapter 4. Neoliberalism and the Ethics of Psychology
Chapter 5. Black Rage and White Listening: On the Psychologization of Racial Emotionality
Chapter 6. Jouissance and Discontent: A Meeting of Psychoanalysis, Race and American Slavery
Chapter 7. The Nasty Woman: Destruction and the Path to Mutual Recognition
Chapter 8. Another Voice from Radical Ethics: Denmarks Knud Løgstrup
Chapter 9. Identity-as-disclosive-space: Dasein, Discourse and Distortion
Chapter 10. Finding the Other in the Self
Chapter 11. After the World Collapsed: Two Culturally Embedded Forms of Service to Others Following Wide-Scale Societal Traumas
About the author
David M. Goodman is interim dean at the Woods College of Advancing Studies at Boston College, associate professor of the practice in the Philosophy department, director of
Psychology and the Other, and a teaching associate at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Hospital.
Eric R. Severson is author of the books
Levinas's Philosophy of Time and
Scandalous Obligation, and the editor of seven other volumes. He lives in Kenmore, Washington, with his wife Misha and their three children, and teaches philosophy at Seattle University.
Heather Macdonald's scholarly research focuses on the interface between relational ethics and clinical practice. Her first monograph, titled
Cultural and Critical Explorations in Community Psychology, further considers the implications of psychological assessment and historical trauma.
Summary
This timely collection asks the reader to consider how society’s modern notion of humans as rational, isolated individuals has contributed to psychological and social problems and oppressive power structures.
