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Life Choices - Understanding Dilemmas And Decisions (Paperback)
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Life Choices - Understanding Dilemmas And Decisions (Paperback)
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This book may be viewed as an "antiguide" to decisionmaking. It
rejects mechanical formulas and urges self-reflection and a
critique of ideology. Through close readings of fifteen life
history interviews, Tod Sloan creates a framework for the
interpretation of dilemmas and decisions. Ultimately, we see that a
life choice or turning point comprises three phases--dilemma,
deliberation, and decision. As each individual recounts a specific
instance when a life choice was necessary, the supporting analysis
reveals the framework that triggered the sense that a turning point
had been reached.Sloan's basic premise is that common sense and
mainstream psychology fail to enlighten us about what is actually
involved in major life choices. Individuals tend to make decisions
that are not in their best interests and, in fact, these decisions
tend to reinforce the sociocultural structures that were initially
instrumental in the creation of their dilemmas. By reading the
extensive case histories and examining the ways in which the
subjects' cultural and social embeddedness interacts with
unconscious processes, the reader can develop the ability to
understand and think critically about personal life
decisions.Developed as an antidote to traditional self-help books,
Sloan's decision analysis framework is derived from cognitive,
phenomenological, and psychoanalytic theory. Each aspect of the
decisionmaking process--from the emergence of a dilemma to
postdecision regret--can be understood by considering the contexts
of personality, life history, practical arrangements, and ideology.
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