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This book attempts to 'shake up' the current complacency around
therapy and 'mental health' behaviours by putting therapy fully
into context using Social Contextual Analysis; showing how changes
to our social, discursive, and societal environments, rather than
changes to an individual's 'mind', will reduce suffering from the
'mental health' behaviours. Guerin challenges many assumptions
about both current therapy and psychology, and offers alternative
approaches, synthesized from sociology, social anthropology,
sociolinguistics, and elsewhere. The book provides a way of
addressing the 'mental health' behaviours including actions,
talking, thinking, and emotions, by taking people's external life
situations into account, and not relying on an imagined 'internal
source'. Guerin describes the broad contexts for current Western
therapies, referring to social, discursive, cultural, societal, and
economic contexts, and suggests that we need to research the
components of therapies and stop treating therapies as units. He
reframes different types of therapy away from their abstract
jargons, offering an alternative approach grounded in our real
social worlds, aligning with new thinking that challenges the
traditional methods of therapy, and also providing a better
framework for rethinking psychology itself. The book ultimately
suggests more emphasis should be put on 'mental health' behaviours
as arising from social issues including the modern contexts of
extreme capitalism, excessive bureaucracy, weakened discursive
communities, and changing forms of social relationships. Practical
guidelines are provided for building the reimagined therapies into
clinics and institutions where labelling and pathologizing the
'mental health' behaviours will no longer be needed. By putting
'mental health' behaviours and therapy into a naturalistic or
ecological social sciences framework, this book will be practical
and fascinating reading for professional therapists, counsellors,
social workers, and mental health nurses, as well as academics
interested in psychology and the social sciences more generally.
This book attempts to 'shake up' the current complacency around
therapy and 'mental health' behaviours by putting therapy fully
into context using Social Contextual Analysis; showing how changes
to our social, discursive, and societal environments, rather than
changes to an individual's 'mind', will reduce suffering from the
'mental health' behaviours. Guerin challenges many assumptions
about both current therapy and psychology, and offers alternative
approaches, synthesized from sociology, social anthropology,
sociolinguistics, and elsewhere. The book provides a way of
addressing the 'mental health' behaviours including actions,
talking, thinking, and emotions, by taking people's external life
situations into account, and not relying on an imagined 'internal
source'. Guerin describes the broad contexts for current Western
therapies, referring to social, discursive, cultural, societal, and
economic contexts, and suggests that we need to research the
components of therapies and stop treating therapies as units. He
reframes different types of therapy away from their abstract
jargons, offering an alternative approach grounded in our real
social worlds, aligning with new thinking that challenges the
traditional methods of therapy, and also providing a better
framework for rethinking psychology itself. The book ultimately
suggests more emphasis should be put on 'mental health' behaviours
as arising from social issues including the modern contexts of
extreme capitalism, excessive bureaucracy, weakened discursive
communities, and changing forms of social relationships. Practical
guidelines are provided for building the reimagined therapies into
clinics and institutions where labelling and pathologizing the
'mental health' behaviours will no longer be needed. By putting
'mental health' behaviours and therapy into a naturalistic or
ecological social sciences framework, this book will be practical
and fascinating reading for professional therapists, counsellors,
social workers, and mental health nurses, as well as academics
interested in psychology and the social sciences more generally.
This groundbreaking book shows how we can build a better
understanding of people by merging psychology with the social
sciences. It is part of a trilogy that offers a new way of doing
psychology focusing on people's social and societal environments as
determining their behaviour, rather than internal and
individualistic attributions. Putting the 'social' properly back
into psychology, Bernard Guerin turns psychology inside out to
offer a more integrated way of thinking about and researching
people. Going back 60 years of psychology's history to the
'cognitive revolution', Guerin argues that psychology made a
mistake, and demonstrates in fascinating new ways how to instead
fully contextualize the topics of psychology and merge with the
social sciences. Covering perception, emotion, language, thinking,
and social behaviour, the book seeks to guide readers to observe
how behaviours are shaped by their social, cultural, economic,
patriarchal, colonized, historical, and other contexts. Our brain,
neurophysiology, and body are still involved as important
interfaces, but human actions do not originate inside of people so
we will never fi nd the answers in our neurophysiology. Replacing
the internal origins of behaviour with external social contextual
analyses, the book even argues that thinking is not done by you 'in
your head' but arises from our external social, cultural, and
discursive worlds. Offering a refreshing new approach to better
understand how humans operate in their social, cultural, economic,
discursive, and societal worlds, rather than inside their heads,
and how we might have to rethink our approaches to neuropsychology
as well, this is fascinating reading for students in psychology and
the social sciences.
This radical book explores a new understanding of psychology based
on human engagement with external contexts, rather than what goes
on inside our heads. It is part of a trilogy that offers a new way
of doing psychology, focusing on people's social and societal
environments as determining their behaviour, rather than internal
and individualistic attributions. By showing that we engage
directly with our complex social, political, economic, patriarchal,
colonized, and cultural contexts and that what we do and think
arises from this direct engagement with these external contexts,
Bernard Guerin expertly demonstrates that Western ideas have
systematically excluded the 'social' but that this is really where
the major determinants of our behaviour arise. This book works
through many human activities that psychology still treats as
individualized and internal and shows their social and societal
origins. These includes beliefs, the sense of self, the arts,
religious behaviours, and the new and growing area of conservation
psychology. The social structures found by sociology, anthropology
and sociolinguistics are shown to shape most 'individual' human
actions, and it is shown how the main points of Marxism and
Indigenous knowledges can be better merged into this new and
broader social science. Replacing the 'internal' attributions of
causes with external contextual analyses based in the social
sciences, this book is fascinating reading for academics and
students in psychology and the social sciences, and provides
exciting new ways to conceptualize and observe human actions in new
ways and to resist the current individualistic thinking of
'psychology'.
This groundbreaking book shows how we can build a better
understanding of people by merging psychology with the social
sciences. It is part of a trilogy that offers a new way of doing
psychology focusing on people's social and societal environments as
determining their behaviour, rather than internal and
individualistic attributions. Putting the 'social' properly back
into psychology, Bernard Guerin turns psychology inside out to
offer a more integrated way of thinking about and researching
people. Going back 60 years of psychology's history to the
'cognitive revolution', Guerin argues that psychology made a
mistake, and demonstrates in fascinating new ways how to instead
fully contextualize the topics of psychology and merge with the
social sciences. Covering perception, emotion, language, thinking,
and social behaviour, the book seeks to guide readers to observe
how behaviours are shaped by their social, cultural, economic,
patriarchal, colonized, historical, and other contexts. Our brain,
neurophysiology, and body are still involved as important
interfaces, but human actions do not originate inside of people so
we will never fi nd the answers in our neurophysiology. Replacing
the internal origins of behaviour with external social contextual
analyses, the book even argues that thinking is not done by you 'in
your head' but arises from our external social, cultural, and
discursive worlds. Offering a refreshing new approach to better
understand how humans operate in their social, cultural, economic,
discursive, and societal worlds, rather than inside their heads,
and how we might have to rethink our approaches to neuropsychology
as well, this is fascinating reading for students in psychology and
the social sciences.
This book offers a refreshing new approach to mental health by
showing how 'mental health' behaviours, lived experiences, and our
interventions arise from our social worlds and not from our
neurophysiology gone wrong. It is part of a trilogy which offers a
new way of doing psychology focusing on people's social and
societal environments as determining their behaviour, rather than
internal and individualistic attributions. 'Mental health'
behaviours are carefully analysed as ordinary behaviours which have
become exaggerated and chronic because of the bad life situations
people are forced to endure, especially as children. This shifts
mental health treatments away from the dominance of psychology and
psychiatry to show that social action is needed because many of
these bad life situations are produced by our modern society
itself. By providing new ways for readers to rethink everything
they thought they knew about mental health issues and how to change
them, Bernard Guerin also explores how by changing our
environmental contexts (our local, societal, and discursive
worlds), we can improve mental health interventions. This book
reframes 'mental health' into a much wider social context to show
how societal structures restrict our opportunities and pathways to
produce bad life situations, and how we can also learn from those
who manage to deal with the very same bad life situations through
crime, bullying, exploitation, and dropping out of mainstream
society, rather than through the 'mental health' behaviours. By
merging psychology and psychiatry into the social sciences, Guerin
seeks to better understand how humans operate in their social,
cultural, economic, patriarchal, discursive, and societal worlds,
rather than being isolated inside their heads with a 'faulty
brain', and this will provide fascinating reading for academics and
students in psychology and the social sciences, and for counsellors
and therapists.
This radical book explores a new understanding of psychology based
on human engagement with external contexts, rather than what goes
on inside our heads. It is part of a trilogy that offers a new way
of doing psychology, focusing on people's social and societal
environments as determining their behaviour, rather than internal
and individualistic attributions. By showing that we engage
directly with our complex social, political, economic, patriarchal,
colonized, and cultural contexts and that what we do and think
arises from this direct engagement with these external contexts,
Bernard Guerin expertly demonstrates that Western ideas have
systematically excluded the 'social' but that this is really where
the major determinants of our behaviour arise. This book works
through many human activities that psychology still treats as
individualized and internal and shows their social and societal
origins. These includes beliefs, the sense of self, the arts,
religious behaviours, and the new and growing area of conservation
psychology. The social structures found by sociology, anthropology
and sociolinguistics are shown to shape most 'individual' human
actions, and it is shown how the main points of Marxism and
Indigenous knowledges can be better merged into this new and
broader social science. Replacing the 'internal' attributions of
causes with external contextual analyses based in the social
sciences, this book is fascinating reading for academics and
students in psychology and the social sciences, and provides
exciting new ways to conceptualize and observe human actions in new
ways and to resist the current individualistic thinking of
'psychology'.
The world of mental illness is typically framed around symptoms and
cures, where every client is given a label. In this challenging new
book, Professor Bernard Guerin provides a fresh alternative to
considering these issues, based in interdisciplinary social
sciences and discourse analysis rather than medical studies or
cognitive metaphors. A timely and articulate challenge to
mainstream approaches, Guerin asks the reader to observe the
ecological contexts for behavior rather than diagnose symptoms, to
find new ways to understand and help those experiencing mental
distress. This book shows the reader: how we attribute 'mental
illness' to someone's behavior why we call some forms of suffering
'mental' but not others what Western diagnoses look like when you
strip away the theory and categories why psychiatry and psychology
appeared for the first time at the start of modernity the
relationship between capitalism and modern ideas of 'mental
illness' why it seems that women, the poor and people of Indigenous
and non-Western backgrounds have worse 'mental health' how we can
rethink the 'hearing of voices' more ecologically how self-identity
has evolved historically how thinking arises from our social
contexts rather than from inside our heads. Offering solutions
rather than theory to develop a new 'post-internal' psychology, How
to Rethink Mental Illness will be essential reading for every
mental health professional, as well as anyone who has either
experienced a mental illness themselves, or helped a friend or
family member who has.
The world of mental illness is typically framed around symptoms and
cures, where every client is given a label. In this challenging new
book, Professor Bernard Guerin provides a fresh alternative to
considering these issues, based in interdisciplinary social
sciences and discourse analysis rather than medical studies or
cognitive metaphors. A timely and articulate challenge to
mainstream approaches, Guerin asks the reader to observe the
ecological contexts for behavior rather than diagnose symptoms, to
find new ways to understand and help those experiencing mental
distress. This book shows the reader: how we attribute 'mental
illness' to someone's behavior why we call some forms of suffering
'mental' but not others what Western diagnoses look like when you
strip away the theory and categories why psychiatry and psychology
appeared for the first time at the start of modernity the
relationship between capitalism and modern ideas of 'mental
illness' why it seems that women, the poor and people of Indigenous
and non-Western backgrounds have worse 'mental health' how we can
rethink the 'hearing of voices' more ecologically how self-identity
has evolved historically how thinking arises from our social
contexts rather than from inside our heads. Offering solutions
rather than theory to develop a new 'post-internal' psychology, How
to Rethink Mental Illness will be essential reading for every
mental health professional, as well as anyone who has either
experienced a mental illness themselves, or helped a friend or
family member who has.
Based on the author's forty years of experience in psychology,
philosophy, and the social sciences, How to Rethink Psychology
argues that to understand people we need to know more about their
contexts than the dominant modes of thinking and research presently
allow. Drawing upon insights from sources as diverse as Freud, CBT,
quantum physics, and Zen philosophy, the book offers several
fascinating new metaphors for thinking about people and, in doing
so, endeavors to create a psychology for the future. The book
begins by discussing the significance of the key metaphor
underlying mainstream psychology today - the 'particle' or 'causal'
metaphor - and explains the need for a shift towards new 'wave' or
'contextual' metaphors in order to appreciate how individual and
social actions truly function. It explores new metaphors for
thinking about the relationship between language and reality, and
teaches the reader how they might reimagine the processes involved
in the act of thinking itself. The book concludes with a
consideration of how these new metaphors might be applied to
practical methods of research and understanding change today. How
to Rethink Psychology is important reading for upper-level and
postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of social
psychology, critical psychology, and the philosophy of psychology,
and will especially appeal to those studying behavior analysis and
radical behaviorism. It has also been written for the general
reading public who enjoy exploring new ideas in science and
thinking.
Based on the author's forty years of experience in psychology,
philosophy, and the social sciences, How to Rethink Psychology
argues that to understand people we need to know more about their
contexts than the dominant modes of thinking and research presently
allow. Drawing upon insights from sources as diverse as Freud, CBT,
quantum physics, and Zen philosophy, the book offers several
fascinating new metaphors for thinking about people and, in doing
so, endeavors to create a psychology for the future. The book
begins by discussing the significance of the key metaphor
underlying mainstream psychology today - the 'particle' or 'causal'
metaphor - and explains the need for a shift towards new 'wave' or
'contextual' metaphors in order to appreciate how individual and
social actions truly function. It explores new metaphors for
thinking about the relationship between language and reality, and
teaches the reader how they might reimagine the processes involved
in the act of thinking itself. The book concludes with a
consideration of how these new metaphors might be applied to
practical methods of research and understanding change today. How
to Rethink Psychology is important reading for upper-level and
postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of social
psychology, critical psychology, and the philosophy of psychology,
and will especially appeal to those studying behavior analysis and
radical behaviorism. It has also been written for the general
reading public who enjoy exploring new ideas in science and
thinking.
This book offers a refreshing new approach to mental health by
showing how 'mental health' behaviours, lived experiences, and our
interventions arise from our social worlds and not from our
neurophysiology gone wrong. It is part of a trilogy which offers a
new way of doing psychology focusing on people's social and
societal environments as determining their behaviour, rather than
internal and individualistic attributions. 'Mental health'
behaviours are carefully analysed as ordinary behaviours which have
become exaggerated and chronic because of the bad life situations
people are forced to endure, especially as children. This shifts
mental health treatments away from the dominance of psychology and
psychiatry to show that social action is needed because many of
these bad life situations are produced by our modern society
itself. By providing new ways for readers to rethink everything
they thought they knew about mental health issues and how to change
them, Bernard Guerin also explores how by changing our
environmental contexts (our local, societal, and discursive
worlds), we can improve mental health interventions. This book
reframes 'mental health' into a much wider social context to show
how societal structures restrict our opportunities and pathways to
produce bad life situations, and how we can also learn from those
who manage to deal with the very same bad life situations through
crime, bullying, exploitation, and dropping out of mainstream
society, rather than through the 'mental health' behaviours. By
merging psychology and psychiatry into the social sciences, Guerin
seeks to better understand how humans operate in their social,
cultural, economic, patriarchal, discursive, and societal worlds,
rather than being isolated inside their heads with a 'faulty
brain', and this will provide fascinating reading for academics and
students in psychology and the social sciences, and for counsellors
and therapists.
Developed from the author's long teaching career, How to Rethink
Human Behavior aims to cultivate practical skills in human
observation and analysis, rather than offer a catalogue of
immutable 'facts'. It synthesizes key psychological concepts with
insights from other disciplines, including sociology, social
anthropology, economics, and history. The skills detailed in the
book will help readers to observe people in their contexts and to
analyze what they observe, in order to make better sense of why
people do what they do, say what they say, and think what they
think. These methods can also be applied to our own thoughts, talk
and actions - not as something we control from 'within' but as
events constantly being shaped by the idiosyncratic social,
cultural, economic and other contexts in which our lives are
immersed. Whether teaching, studying, or reading for pleasure, this
book will help readers learn: How to think about people with
ecological or contextual thinking How your thinking is a
conversation with other people How to analyze talk and
conversations as social strategies How capitalist economies change
how you act, talk and think in 25 ways How living in modern society
can be linked to generalized anxiety and depression How to Rethink
Human Behavior is important interdisciplinary reading for students
and researchers in all fields of social science, and will
especially appeal to those interested in mental health. It has also
been written for the general reading public who enjoy exploring new
ideas and skills in understanding themselves and other people.
Developed from the author's long teaching career, How to Rethink
Human Behavior aims to cultivate practical skills in human
observation and analysis, rather than offer a catalogue of
immutable 'facts'. It synthesizes key psychological concepts with
insights from other disciplines, including sociology, social
anthropology, economics, and history. The skills detailed in the
book will help readers to observe people in their contexts and to
analyze what they observe, in order to make better sense of why
people do what they do, say what they say, and think what they
think. These methods can also be applied to our own thoughts, talk
and actions - not as something we control from 'within' but as
events constantly being shaped by the idiosyncratic social,
cultural, economic and other contexts in which our lives are
immersed. Whether teaching, studying, or reading for pleasure, this
book will help readers learn: How to think about people with
ecological or contextual thinking How your thinking is a
conversation with other people How to analyze talk and
conversations as social strategies How capitalist economies change
how you act, talk and think in 25 ways How living in modern society
can be linked to generalized anxiety and depression How to Rethink
Human Behavior is important interdisciplinary reading for students
and researchers in all fields of social science, and will
especially appeal to those interested in mental health. It has also
been written for the general reading public who enjoy exploring new
ideas and skills in understanding themselves and other people.
Humans may run faster, read less or type more quickly, simply
because someone else is present. The presence of one person affects
the behaviour of another: this is known as social facilitation and
is one of the oldest topics in social psychology. Despite its
importance this was the first book-length study of the phenomenon
when it was published in 1993. Dr Guerin reviewed all work in the
area from 1898 onwards, looking at both animal and human research,
and developed his own theory, based on modern behaviour analysis.
The book will be appreciated for its wide-ranging and balanced
review of previous work on social facilitation and for the general
review of the state of social psychology during the 1990s that Dr
Guerin's work on the phenomenon includes. The author's theoretical
stance is innovative and important, and will make the work required
reading.
Humans may run faster, read less or type more quickly, simply
because someone else is present. The presence of one person affects
the behaviour of another: this is known as social facilitation and
is one of the oldest topics in social psychology. Despite its
importance this was the first book-length study of the phenomenon
when it was published in 1993. Dr Guerin reviewed all work in the
area from 1898 onwards, looking at both animal and human research,
and developed his own theory, based on modern behaviour analysis.
The book will be appreciated for its wide-ranging and balanced
review of previous work on social facilitation and for the general
review of the state of social psychology during the 1990s that Dr
Guerin's work on the phenomenon includes. The author's theoretical
stance is innovative and important, and will make the work required
reading.
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