Research Catalog

Title

Agency, health, and social survival : the ecopolitics of rival psychologies / Caroline New.

Author

New, Caroline, 1946-

Publication

London ; Bristol, PA : Taylor & Francis, 1996.

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Description

viii, 190 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Agency, Health and Social Survival addresses the interface of sociology and psychology, which its author argues is key to political change, Caroline New reviews academic positions on structure and agency, mental health and human nature theories; bringing out their implications for ecological politics. She suggests that effective social change, to end environmental destruction, is incompatible with our everyday notion of mental health as 'normal functioning'. Ecological activism has to be grounded in critical ideas of health as positive well being, and these in turn depend on theories of psychological human nature.

Alternative Title

Agency, health & social survival

Subject

• Psychology and philosophy
• Psychology > Philosophy
• Pluralism
• Postmodernism
• Psychology
• Philosophy
• Social change
• Cultural pluralism
• Psychology
• Philosophy
• Social Change
• Cultural Diversity
• pluralism
• psychology
• philosophy
• Social change
• Cultural pluralism
• Pluralism
• Postmodernism
• Psychology and philosophy
• Psychology > Philosophy
• Psychologie
• Philosophie
• Psychotherapie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-182) and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Starting points -- Ch. 3. Conflicting concepts of health -- Ch. 4. Freud and the inevitability of discontent -- Ch. 5. Melanie Klein: A social emotion -- Ch. 6. Jacques Lacan: Exposing the myth of agency -- Ch. 7. Humanistic psychology: Saved by synergy -- Ch. 8. Four radical approaches -- Ch. 9. Conclusion: If humanly possible.

ISBN

• 0748402462
• 9780748402465
• 0748402470
• 9780748402472

LCCN

96013394

OCLC

• ocm34514696
• 34514696
• SCSB-2099052

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library