| Inventing Our Selves: Psychology, Power, and Personhood Revised Edition Contributor(s): Rose, Nikolas (Author), Nikolas, Rose (Author), Ash, Mitchell G. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521646073 ISBN-13: 9780521646079 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $28.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1998 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | History - Psychology | Personality - Science | History |
| Dewey: 155.2 |
| LCCN: 95042608 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.01" W x 8.94" (0.71 lbs) 236 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Inventing Our Selves proposes a radical new approach to the analysis of our current regime of the self, and the values of autonomy, identity, individuality, liberty and choice that animate it. It argues that psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and other "psy" disciplines have played a key role in "inventing our selves," changing the ways in which human beings understand and act upon themselves, and how they are acted upon by politicians, managers, doctors, therapists and a multitude of other authorities. These mutations are intrinsically linked to recent changes in ways of understanding and exercising political power, which have stressed the values of autonomy, personal responsibility and choice. The aim of this critical history is to diagnose and destabilize our contemporary "condition" of the self, to help us think differently about the kind of persons we are, or might become. |