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Beyond Individualism - Toward a New Understanding of Self, Relationship, and Experience (Paperback)
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Beyond Individualism - Toward a New Understanding of Self, Relationship, and Experience (Paperback)
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In this pathbreaking and provocative new treatment of some of the
oldest dilemmas of psychology and relationship, Gordon Wheeler
challenges the most basic tenet of the West cultural tradition: the
individualist self. Characteristics of this self-model are our
embedded yet pervasive ideas that the individual self precedes and
transcends relationship and social field conditions and that
interpersonal experience is somehow secondary and even opposed to
the needs of the inner self. Assumptions like these, Wheeler
argues, which are taken to be inherent to human nature and
development, amount to a controlling cultural paradigm that does
considerable violence to both our evolutionary self-nature and our
intuitive self-experience. He asserts that we are actually far more
relational and intersubjective than our cultural generally allows
and that these relational capacities are deeply built into our
inherent evolutionary nature. His argument progresses from the
origins and lineage of the Western individualist self-model, into
the basis for a new model of the self, relationship, and experience
out of the insights and implications of Gestalt psychology and its
philosophical derivatives, deconstructivism and social
constructionism. From there, in a linked series of experiential
chapters, each of them a groundbreaking essay in its own right, he
takes up the essential dynamic themes of self-experience and
relational life: interpersonal orientation, meaning-making and
adaptation, support, shame, intimacy, and finally narrative and
gender, culminating in considerations of health, ethics, politics,
and spirit. The result is a picture and an experience of self that
is grounded in the active dynamics of attention, problem solving,
imagination, interpretation, evaluation, emotion, meaning-making,
narration, and, above all, relationship. By the final section, the
reader comes away with a new sense of what it means to be human and
a new and more usable definition of health.
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