Inventing Our Selves - Psychology, Power and Personhood (Paperback, Revised)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology
Release date:	1998
First published:	1996
Authors:	Nikolas Rose
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	222
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-64607-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > The self, ego, identity, personality Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
LSN:	0-521-64607-3
Barcode:	9780521646079

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