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In this clear and reasoned discussion of self- knowledge and the self, the author asks whether it is really possible to know ourselves as we really are. He illuminates issues about the nature of self-identity which are of fundamental importance in moral psychology, epistemology and literary criticism. Jopling focuses on the accounts of Stuart Hampshire, Jean-Paul Sartre and Richard Rorty, and dialogical philosophical psychology and illustrates his argument with examples from literature, drama and psychology.
What is the self-concept and how does it develop? Do people in
different cultures have sharply different concepts of self? Can we
believe what our informants tell us on this point? What is known
about the self-concepts of depressives? of schizophrenics? How does
meditation affect the sense of self? Is there an inner 'self of
selves' as James once suggested? These are, of course, hotly
debated questions in the social sciences. In this book a
prestigious group of psychologists, linguists, anthropologists and
philosophers addresses these questions and presents some surprising
answers. This is the third and last of the Emory Symposia organized
around Ulric Neisser's cognitive theory of self-knowledge, it goes
beyond The Perceived Self and The Remembering Self to deal with
psychological and philosophical questions surrounding the self.
For years, thinkers have debated the meaning and origin of the self-concept. Among contested issues are how people in different cultures can have sharply different concepts of self, what can be known about the self-concepts of depressives and schizophrenics, how meditation can affect the sense of self, and if there is an inner "self of selves," as James once suggested. In this collection, a prestigious group of psychologists, anthropologists, and philosophers addresses these topics and presents some surprising answers. This is the third and last of the Emory Symposia organized around Ulric Neisser's cognitive theory of self-knowledge; it goes beyond The Perceived Self and The Remembering Self to deal with some of the oldest--as well as some of the newest--psychological and philosophical questions surrounding the concept of self.
Psychoanalysis has had to defend itself from a barrage of criticism
throughout its history. Nevertheless, there are many who claim to
have been helped by this therapy, and who claim to have achieved
genuine insight into their condition. But do the psychodynamic or
exploratory psychotherapies - the so-called talking cures - really
help clients get in touch with their "inner," "real" or "true"
selves? Do clients make important discoveries about the real causes
of their behaviours, emotions, and personalities? Are their
insights, and the psychodynamic interpretations offered them by
their psychotherapists, true? Many think so.
Talking Cures and Placebo Effects contests this view. It defends
the unpopular hypothesis that therapeutic changes in the
psychodynamic psychotherapies are sometimes functions of powerful
placebos that rally the mind's native healing powers in much the
same way that placebo pills rally the body's native healing powers;
and that psychodynamic insights and interpretations are themselves
placebos. Few clients know this, and fewer still are informed of
the potential placebo effects at play in exploratory psychotherapy,
and of the consequent risks of self-misinterpretation and
self-deception. Thus does Talking Cures and Placebo Effects target
a host of problems that lie at the very intersection of the
epistemology, ethics, scientific status, and public accountability
of the talking cures.
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