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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      04 August 2010
      13 July 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511752179
      9780521434140
      9780521646079
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511752179
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.523kg, 236 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.335kg, 236 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Science and Technology, History of Science, History, Psychology, Psychology: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology
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    Subjects:
    History of Science and Technology, History of Science, History, Psychology, Psychology: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology
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    Inventing Our Selves proposes a radical new approach to the analysis of our current regime of the self, and the values of autonomy, identity, individuality, liberty, and choice that animate it. It argues that psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and other 'psy' disciplines have played a key role in 'inventing our selves', changing the ways in which human beings understand and act upon themselves, and how they are acted upon by politicians, managers, doctors, therapists, and a multitude of other authorities. These mutations are intrinsically linked to recent changes in ways of understanding and exercising political power, which have stressed the values of autonomy, personal responsibility, and choice. This critical history diagnoses and destabilises our contemporary 'condition' of the self, to help us think differently about the kind of persons we are, or might become.

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    ‘The scope and isnights of what Rose has to say about what it is to become, and be, a human alone suffice to ensure the very great importance of this volume.’

    Paul Heelas Source: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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