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Michel Foucault has had an extraordinary impact on writers in the
human sciences since his first book "Madness and Civilization"
appeared in English. This title assesses the reactions to "Madness
and Civilization."
This book brings together the papers written by the authors over
the last fifteen years on the historical and philosophical
foundations of Albert Ellis' Rational Psychotherapy (later Rational
Emotive Behavior Therapy, REBT) and its relationship to Stoicism,
especially the later practical form represented by Epictetus. It
goes beneath the well known similarities between Stoic "spiritual
exercises" and modern psychotherapy, to look at the cause of these
similarities. These lie in the conceptual continuities that connect
the Stoics and other ancient philosophies with the modern cultural
framework underlying psychotherapy.
Michel Foucault has had an extraordinary impact on writers in the
human sciences since his first book "Madness and Civilization"
appeared in English. When it appeared in Britain in 1967 it was
read as part of the anti-psychiatry movement of the time. Only
retrospectively has it been seen as the start of a profoundly
original and influential theory on the nature of knowledge and
power. "Rewriting the History of Madness" is a collection of essays
centred around a provocative paper by Colin Gordon, which claims
that major critics have failed to take note of the depth of
Foucault's researches because of their excessive dependence on the
English translation of the abridged 1965 edition. The collection
takes Gordon's essay as a starting point, but ranges widely in
drawing out the significance of Foucault's writings for modern
thought in a variety of disciplines.
This book brings together the papers written by the authors over
the last fifteen years on the historical and philosophical
foundations of Albert Ellis' Rational Psychotherapy (later Rational
Emotive Behavior Therapy, REBT) and its relationship to Stoicism,
especially the later practical form represented by Epictetus. It
goes beneath the well known similarities between Stoic "spiritual
exercises" and modern psychotherapy, to look at the cause of these
similarities. These lie in the conceptual continuities that connect
the Stoics and other ancient philosophies with the modern cultural
framework underlying psychotherapy.
`Could certainly be used as a stand-alone text. Aimed primarily at
advanced undergraduates, it could also be read by others who may be
prompted to identify yet further dimensions with which to map
contemporary social psychology and define their position in
relation to others' - The Psychologist This clearly structured
textbook presents a broad overview of the key issues that underpin
social psychology. These include: the nature of science and
`psychology as science'; descriptive, emancipatory and critical
theories; and the different ways in which social psychology is
applied in the social and political world. Drawing upon a number of
different perspectives, this volume will introduce students to the
important debates around what constitutes valid argument and
research in social psychology, its aims, scope and subject matter,
and the degree to which social psychology can be said to be itself
a social institution and a part of the network of social regulation
and definition. Theory and Social Psychology is one of four books
which form the core of The Open University's course Social
Psychology: Personal Lives, Social Worlds.
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