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Inventing our Selves - Psychology, Power, and Personhood (Hardcover, New)
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Inventing our Selves - Psychology, Power, and Personhood (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology
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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. This
critical history diagnoses and destabilises our contemporary
'condition' of the self, to help us think differently about the
kind of persons we are, or might become.
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