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1. Phil Cushman is a highly esteemed scholar in the academy, and
has been a prolific author. The present project of featuring the
work of his students is an innovative approach to dissemination of
scholarship on hermeneutics. 2. Interest in hermeneutic approaches
is on the rise, but little has been written on applying these
approaches to a dissertation. This book will fill an important and
niche. 3. Dissertations cover a range of challenging and topical
issues, such as end of life care, motherhood, trauma and racism.
1. Phil Cushman is a highly esteemed scholar in the academy, and
has been a prolific author. The present project of featuring the
work of his students is an innovative approach to dissemination of
scholarship on hermeneutics. 2. Interest in hermeneutic approaches
is on the rise, but little has been written on applying these
approaches to a dissertation. This book will fill an important and
niche. 3. Dissertations cover a range of challenging and topical
issues, such as end of life care, motherhood, trauma and racism.
Travels with the Self uses a hermeneutic perspective to critique
psychology and demonstrate why the concept of the self and the
modality of cultural history are so vitally important to the
profession of psychology. Each chapter focuses on a theory,
concept, sociopolitical or professional issue, philosophical
problem, or professional activity that has rarely been critiqued
from a historical, sociopolitical vantage point. Philip Cushman
explores psychology's involvement in consumerism, racism, shallow
understandings of being human, military torture, political
resistance, and digital living. In each case, theories and
practices are treated as historical artifacts, rather than
expressions of a putatively progressive, modern-era science that is
uncovering the one, universal truth about human being. In this way,
psychological theories and practices, especially pertaining to the
concept of the self, are shown to be reflections of the larger
moral understandings and political arrangements of their time and
place, with implications for how we understand the self in theory
and clinical practice. Drawing on the philosophies of critical
theory and hermeneutics, Cushman insists on understanding the self,
one of the most studied and cherished of psychological concepts,
and its ills, practitioners, and healing technologies, as
historical/cultural artifacts - surprising, almost sacrilegious,
concepts. To this end, each chapter begins with a historical
introduction that locates it in the historical time and
moral/political space of the nation's, the profession's, and the
author's personal context. Travels with the Self brings together
highly unusual and controversial writings on contemporary
psychology that will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists,
psychologists of all stripes, as well as scholars of philosophy,
history, and cultural studies.
Travels with the Self uses a hermeneutic perspective to critique
psychology and demonstrate why the concept of the self and the
modality of cultural history are so vitally important to the
profession of psychology. Each chapter focuses on a theory,
concept, sociopolitical or professional issue, philosophical
problem, or professional activity that has rarely been critiqued
from a historical, sociopolitical vantage point. Philip Cushman
explores psychology's involvement in consumerism, racism, shallow
understandings of being human, military torture, political
resistance, and digital living. In each case, theories and
practices are treated as historical artifacts, rather than
expressions of a putatively progressive, modern-era science that is
uncovering the one, universal truth about human being. In this way,
psychological theories and practices, especially pertaining to the
concept of the self, are shown to be reflections of the larger
moral understandings and political arrangements of their time and
place, with implications for how we understand the self in theory
and clinical practice. Drawing on the philosophies of critical
theory and hermeneutics, Cushman insists on understanding the self,
one of the most studied and cherished of psychological concepts,
and its ills, practitioners, and healing technologies, as
historical/cultural artifacts - surprising, almost sacrilegious,
concepts. To this end, each chapter begins with a historical
introduction that locates it in the historical time and
moral/political space of the nation's, the profession's, and the
author's personal context. Travels with the Self brings together
highly unusual and controversial writings on contemporary
psychology that will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists,
psychologists of all stripes, as well as scholars of philosophy,
history, and cultural studies.
In this ground-breaking cultural history of psychotherapy,
historian and psychologist Philip Cushman shows how the development
of modern psychotherapy is inextricably intertwined with that of
the United States and how it has changed the way Americans view
events and themselves. By tracing our various definitions of the
self throughout history, Cushman reveals that psychotherapy is very
much a product of a particular time and place--and that it has been
fundamentally complicit in creating many of the ills it seeks to
assuage.
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