1st Edition
Agency, Health And Social Survival The Ecopolitics Of Rival Psychologies
By Caroline New
Copyright 1996
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
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This text addresses the interface of sociology and psychology which, it argues, is the key to political change. Offering a comparison of a range of psychotherapeutic theories of human nature, including those of Freud and Anna Freud, Klein and Kleininans and Lacan, humanisticpsychology, and feminist, trans-cultural and other radical psychotherapies, the book focuses on each theory's psychological concept of health and its political implications.
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Starting points; Chapter 3 Conflicting concepts of health; Chapter 4 Freud and the inevitability of discontent; Chapter 5 Melanie Klein: A social emotion; Chapter 6 Jacques Lacan: Exposing the myth of agency; Chapter 7 Humanistic psychology: Saved by synergy; Chapter 8 Four radical approaches; Chapter 9 Conclusion: If humanly possible;
Biography
Caroline New