| Description |
1 online resource (xxix, 418 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue: Toward a new Enlightenment -- From bounded to relational being. Bounded being ; In the beginning is the relationship ; The relational self ; The body as relationship : emotion, pleasure, and pain -- Relational being in everyday life. Multi-being and the adventures of everyday life ; Bonds, barricades, and beyond -- Relational being in professional practice. Knowledge as co-creation ; Education in a relational key ; Therapy as relational recovery ; Organizing : the precarious balance -- From the moral to the sacred. Morality : from relativism to relational responsibility ; Approaching the sacred -- Epilogue: The coming of relational consciousness. |
| Summary |
This book builds on two current developments in psychology scholarship and practice. The first centers on broad discontent with the individualist tradition in which the rational agent, or autonomous self, is considered the fundamental atom of social life. Critique of individualism spring not only from psychologists working in the academy, but also from communities of therapy and counseling. The second, and related development from which this work builds, is the search for alternatives to individualist understanding. Thus, therapists such as Steve Mitchell, along with feminists at the Stone Cen. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Psychology -- Philosophy.
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Psychology -- Philosophy. |
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Self.
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Self. |
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Individualism.
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Individualism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gergen, Kenneth J. Relational being. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 9780195305388 (DLC) 2008040521 (OCoLC)258329308 |
| ISBN |
9780199719402 (electronic book) |
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0199719403 (electronic book) |
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9780195305388 |
| Standard No. |
9786612328282 |
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