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Power, Interest and Psychology - Elements of a Social Materialist Understanding of Distress (Paperback)
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Power, Interest and Psychology - Elements of a Social Materialist Understanding of Distress (Paperback)
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Loot Price R383
Discovery Miles 3 830
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Conventional therapeutic psychology suggest that we are essentially
self-creating and able (with a little help from a therapist) to
heal ourselves of the emotional ills that beset us. This kind of
view reflects the wishful thinking and make-believe that are
necessary for the success of modern consumer capitalism, but it
does not reflect the way things are. The alternative set out here,
based on the author's many years' experience of practice as a
clinical psychologist, offers a language and a set of concepts that
enable us to understand ourselves as real, embodied beings in an
equally real world that resists mere wishfulness. Our experience of
ourselves, as well as much of our conduct, are accounted for in
terms of the social operations of power and interest - and a
framework is established for making sense of our emotional distress
as the outcome of environmental pressures. David Smail argues that
to take ourselves seriously as social beings, embodied in a real
world over which as individuals we have very little influence, is
by no means grounds for despair. Rather, it encourages modesty,
appreciation of good fortune, compassion and recognition of our
common humanity.
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