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Description

1. viii, 190 pages; 25 cm

Summary

1. 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

1. Agency, health & social survival

Subject

1. Psychology and philosophy
2. Psychology > Philosophy
3. Pluralism
4. Postmodernism
5. Psychology
6. Philosophy
7. Social change
8. Cultural pluralism
9. Psychology
10. Philosophy
11. Social Change
12. Cultural Diversity
13. pluralism
14. psychology
15. philosophy
16. Social change
17. Cultural pluralism
18. Pluralism
19. Postmodernism
20. Psychology and philosophy
21. Psychology > Philosophy
22. Psychologie
23. Philosophie
24. Psychotherapie

Contents

1. 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.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

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