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Selfless: A Psychologist's Journey through Identity and Social Class - A Psychologist's Journey through Identity and Social Class (Paperback)
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Selfless: A Psychologist's Journey through Identity and Social Class - A Psychologist's Journey through Identity and Social Class (Paperback)
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Selfless is a memoir, reflecting on identity, social class,
mobility, education, and on psychology itself; how psychology as a
discipline is conducted, how it prioritises objects of study, how
it uncovers psychological truths about the world. Geoffrey Beattie
takes the reader on a journey through his early life in
working-class Belfast, his Ph.D. at Trinity College Cambridge and
subsequent academic and professional career, to explore fundamental
issues within psychology about social class and social identity.
Beattie discusses the difficulties inherent in this process of
education and change, and how social background affects how you
view academic work and the subject matter of one's discipline. This
book movingly details a life and how it is changed by the processes
of education, the psychological pressures when abandoning those
close to you, the dissonance within and how it feels and operates.
The book takes a critical look at psychology from the other side,
and examines the process of becoming 'selfless', meaning having
little sense of self rather than being overly concerned with the
wishes and needs of others. Showing how our early experiences and
their influence continues throughout life, Beattie's emotionally
engaging, entertaining, and witty text offers general readers,
students, and academics fresh insights into psychology, adaptation
and personal change.
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