Selfless: A Psychologist's Journey through Identity and Social Class
Autor Geoffrey Beattieen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 dec 2020
Geoffrey Beattie takes the reader on a journey through his early life in working-class Belfast, his Ph.D. at Trinity College Cambridge and subsequent academic and professional career, to explore fundamental issues within psychology about social class and social identity. Beattie discusses the difficulties inherent in this process of education and change, and how social background affects how you view academic work and the subject matter of one’s discipline. This book movingly details a life and how it is changed by the processes of education, the psychological pressures when abandoning those close to you, the dissonance within and how it feels and operates. The book takes a critical look at psychology from the other side, and examines the process of becoming ‘selfless’, meaning having little sense of self rather than being overly concerned with the wishes and needs of others.
Showing how our early experiences and their influence continues throughout life, Beattie’s emotionally engaging, entertaining, and witty text offers general readers, students, and academics fresh insights into psychology, adaptation and personal change.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780367614836
ISBN-10: 0367614839
Pagini: 246
Ilustrații: 6 Halftones, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0367614839
Pagini: 246
Ilustrații: 6 Halftones, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
General, Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate AdvancedCuprins
1. The Turn-of-the-Road 2. Abandoning and Abandonment 3. Getting Ahead of Myself 4. Other Lives 5. Endings and Beginnings 6. Reckonings and Reconciliations
Notă biografică
Geoffrey Beattie is Professor of Psychology at Edge Hill University and a prize-winning academic, author and broadcaster.
Recenzii
What is the Self? How is it related to consciousness? This dilemma has entertained some of the greatest minds of human history. This book contributes in a significant way to that history, written by one of today’s great thinkers, Geoffrey Beattie. It is required reading for anyone interested in understanding what consciousness is and how it emerges throughout the life-cycle.
Professor Marcel Danesi, University of Toronto
This book elegantly integrates such crucial topics as identity, education, social class, and mobility in a deeply moving and encouraging, autobiographical narrative. It has the potential to contribute to relevant fields of inquiry in the same way Oliver Sacks' books did to neurology and the history of science.
Professor Hongbing Yu, Ryerson University.
Identity is at the heart of many conflicts that we see in society today and yet one of the most difficult to discuss rationally. This book brings clarity to this sensitive subject with its powerful mix of psychological research, intellectual rigour and personal insight. I totally loved it!
Dr. Binna Kandola OBE, Business Psychologist, Senior Partner Pearn Kandola.
Identity is at the heart of many conflicts that we see in society today and yet one of the most difficult to discuss rationally. This book brings clarity to this sensitive subject with its powerful mix of psychological research, intellectual rigour and personal insight. I totally loved it!
Professor Binna Kandola OBE, Business Psychologist, Senior Partner Pearn Kandola.
What is the Self? How is it related to consciousness? This dilemma has entertained some of the greatest minds of human history. This book contributes in a significant way to that history, written by one of today’s great thinkers, Geoffrey Beattie. In this unique book, Beattie brings us into his own world of Self-construction. We thus come away understanding what psychology should really be—a discipline that aims to uncover truths about consciousness through the reflections and recollections of the individual. In the style of stream of consciousness writing, Beattie lays out his thoughts, emphasizing how his background had an impact on how he perceived his mission in life and how it directly influenced his own approach to his discipline. He paints a powerful narrative-ethnographic-reflective picture of how the individual copes with rearing, overcomes it (in certain situations), and is able to grasp itself as a distinct entity, rather than as a formless sense of being. This is a book in psychology "from the other side", as Beattie puts it—that is through the experiences that he went through, from suffering to conflict, in order to become aware of himself and his role in the world. It is required reading by anyone interested in understanding what consciousness is and how it emerges throughout the life cycle.
Professor Marcel Danesi, University of Toronto
In Selfless: A Psychologist’s Journey through Identity and Social Class, Beattie has adopted a clearly different approach to psychology than the mainstream practices of writing on the subject, elegantly integrating such crucial topics as identity, education, social class, and mobility in a down-to-earth, unpretentious, yet deeply moving and encouraging, autobiographical narrative. What can be envisioned is that this book has the potential to contribute to relevant fields of inquiry in the same way Oliver Sacks' books did to neurology and the history of science.
Hongbing Yu, Ph.D., Ryerson University
Professor Marcel Danesi, University of Toronto
This book elegantly integrates such crucial topics as identity, education, social class, and mobility in a deeply moving and encouraging, autobiographical narrative. It has the potential to contribute to relevant fields of inquiry in the same way Oliver Sacks' books did to neurology and the history of science.
Professor Hongbing Yu, Ryerson University.
Identity is at the heart of many conflicts that we see in society today and yet one of the most difficult to discuss rationally. This book brings clarity to this sensitive subject with its powerful mix of psychological research, intellectual rigour and personal insight. I totally loved it!
Dr. Binna Kandola OBE, Business Psychologist, Senior Partner Pearn Kandola.
Identity is at the heart of many conflicts that we see in society today and yet one of the most difficult to discuss rationally. This book brings clarity to this sensitive subject with its powerful mix of psychological research, intellectual rigour and personal insight. I totally loved it!
Professor Binna Kandola OBE, Business Psychologist, Senior Partner Pearn Kandola.
What is the Self? How is it related to consciousness? This dilemma has entertained some of the greatest minds of human history. This book contributes in a significant way to that history, written by one of today’s great thinkers, Geoffrey Beattie. In this unique book, Beattie brings us into his own world of Self-construction. We thus come away understanding what psychology should really be—a discipline that aims to uncover truths about consciousness through the reflections and recollections of the individual. In the style of stream of consciousness writing, Beattie lays out his thoughts, emphasizing how his background had an impact on how he perceived his mission in life and how it directly influenced his own approach to his discipline. He paints a powerful narrative-ethnographic-reflective picture of how the individual copes with rearing, overcomes it (in certain situations), and is able to grasp itself as a distinct entity, rather than as a formless sense of being. This is a book in psychology "from the other side", as Beattie puts it—that is through the experiences that he went through, from suffering to conflict, in order to become aware of himself and his role in the world. It is required reading by anyone interested in understanding what consciousness is and how it emerges throughout the life cycle.
Professor Marcel Danesi, University of Toronto
In Selfless: A Psychologist’s Journey through Identity and Social Class, Beattie has adopted a clearly different approach to psychology than the mainstream practices of writing on the subject, elegantly integrating such crucial topics as identity, education, social class, and mobility in a down-to-earth, unpretentious, yet deeply moving and encouraging, autobiographical narrative. What can be envisioned is that this book has the potential to contribute to relevant fields of inquiry in the same way Oliver Sacks' books did to neurology and the history of science.
Hongbing Yu, Ph.D., Ryerson University
Descriere
Selfless is a memoir, reflecting on identity, social class, mobility, education, and on psychology itself; how psychology as a discipline is conducted, how it prioritises objects of study, how it uncovers psychological truths about the world.