Reconstructing the Psychological Subject: Bodies, Practices, and Technologies / Edition 1

by Betty Bayer, John Shotter

Overview

This major book offers a comprehensive overview of key debates on subjectivity and the subject in psychological theory and practice. In addition to social construction's long engagement with social relations, this volume addresses questions of the body, technology, intersubjectivity, writing and investigative practices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803976146
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	01/12/1998
Series:	Inquiries in Social Construction series , #19
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.52(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction - Betty M Bayer
Reenchanting Constructionist Inquiries
Life as an Embodied Art - Edward E Sampson
The Second Stage - Beyond Constructionism
Social Construction as Social Poetics - John Shotter
Oliver Sacks and the Case of Dr P
Feminism and Psychoanalysis Consider Sexuality and the Symbolic Order - Kareen Ror Malone
Would Social Construction Join Us?
Two Ways To Talk about Change - Ben Bradley
‘The Child' of the Sublime versus Radical Pedagogy
Positioning a Dialogic Reflexivity in the Practice of Feminist Supervision - Susan E Hawes
The Ordinary, the Original and the Believable in Psychology's Construction of the Person - Kenneth J Gergen
Repopulating Social Psychology - Michael Billig
A Revised Version of Events
Repopulating Social Psychology Texts - Henderikus J Stam, Ian Lubek and H Lorraine Radtke
Disembodied ‘Subjects' and Embodied Subjectivity
Between Apparatuses and Apparitions - Betty M Bayer
Phantoms of the Laboratory
The Return of Phantom Subjects - Jill Morawski