Despite continuing to work in the discipline at an applied level (cognitive behavioral psychotherapy) until around 2007, I had long become disillusioned with many aspects of “scientific psychology.” Nearly fifty years ago, in my undergraduate psychology degree, I realized the subject frequently had little to do with being human. Often when it did, and even when it did it well, it also had the irritating tendency to sanitize, pull into line, correct. Still happens. When I beefed about this once, a psychology professor said to me: “If you want to explore human life, go study philosophy.” I did. Sound advice. Despite some dissenting voices from the critical psychology wing, the perceptions in mainstream psychology about what constitutes human behavior and experience at sorted and deviant levels remain untroubled. Thinking with Becker,1 this is because these perceptions are premised on its own group consensus of a discipline well sorted—thank you...
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Book Review|
October 01 2024
Review: Toward the Psychological Humanities: A Modest Manifesto for the Future of Psychology, by Freeman, Mark
Freeman, Mark.
Toward the Psychological Humanities: A Modest Manifesto for the Future of Psychology
. London & New York
: Routledge
, 2024
. 113 pp. $51.96 (hardback, ISBN 9780367340490)Journal of Autoethnography (2024) 5 (4): 568–572.
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Alec Grant; Review: Toward the Psychological Humanities: A Modest Manifesto for the Future of Psychology, by Freeman, Mark. Journal of Autoethnography 1 October 2024; 5 (4): 568–572. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2024.5.4.568
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