Performing Psychology by Lois Holzman

Performing Psychology by Lois Holzman

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This volume addresses tensions that exist between two opposing approaches to psychology, the experimental/empirical and the cultural/humanistic approach. The author analyzes a series of writings by and about Fred Newman, the controversial American philosopher and psychotherapist.

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Performing Psychology by Lois Holzman

More than an academic critique, Performing Psychology offers a new methodology for understanding human life. Arguing that both psychological activity and its study are essentially performance, Neuman and his colleagues expose the myths of mainstream psychology and the limitations of its postmodern challengers.

"Performing Psychology: A Postmodern Culture of Mind is a rather unusual hybrid of various strands of critical psychology, including an unusual form of therapy combined with arguments about the nature of performance" -- APA Review of Books

Lois Holzman is Director of Educational Programs at the East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy in New York. Among her publications are Schools for Growth:Radical Alternatives to Current Educational Models (1997) and The End of Knowing: A New Developmental Way ofLearning, with Fred Newman (Routledge, 1996).

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ISBN 13 9780415922050
ISBN 10 0415922054
Title Performing Psychology
Author Lois Holzman
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published 1999-05-04
Number of pages 236
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