Inventing Our Selves - Psychology, Power, and Personhood

Klappentext INVENTING OUR SELVES argues that "psy" disciplines such as psychology and psychiatry have played a key role in changing the ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves. The aim of this critical history is to help us think differently about who we are. Zusammenfassung Inventing Our Selves analyses our current regime of the 'self' and the values that animate it; it discusses how psychology and other 'psy' disciplines have affected the ways in which people understand themselves! and aims to help us think differently about the kind of persons we are! or might become. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. How should one do the history of 'the self'?; 3. A critical history of psychology; 4. Psychology as a 'social' science; 5. Expertise and the 'techne' of psychology; 6. Psychology as an 'individualizing' technology; 7. Social psychology as a science of democracy; 8. Governing enterprising individuals; 9. Assembling ourselves; 10. Notes; 11. Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Rose Nikolas, Nikolas Rose
• Assisted by: Mitchell G. Ash (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.12.1998
• EAN: 9780521646079
• ISBN: 978-0-521-64607-9
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology; Cambridge Studies in the Histo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics