The Off-Modern : Psychology Estranged
The Off-Modern : Psychology Estranged
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Author(s): Roberts, Ron
ISBN No.: 9781785355950
Pages: 232
Year: 201709
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 34.93
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

Society is undergoing a process of deep change and transformation as the neoliberal order moves into crisis. Contemporary psychology, mired in exceptionalism and individualism, fails to address this broader context and continues with a fragmented reductionist approach which is alienating to students and practitioners alike. In the lifetime of the discipline there have been several distinct frameworks to emerge - psychoanalytic, behaviourist and cognitive. To these one might add Kelly's Personal Construct Theory as the last attempt to present a coherent and challenging framework for how to understand our lives. As society moves into a new phase, Ron Roberts argues the need for a new way of 'doing' psychology which challenges not only the existing epistemological and reductionist outlook, but the centrality of a scientific professional discourse as a suitable vehicle for improving lives and making sense of the world.


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