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1994

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The Meaning Of Health And The Health Of Meaning, Barry Schwartz Nov 1994

The Meaning Of Health And The Health Of Meaning, Barry Schwartz

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Review Of "The Analyst And The Mystic: Psychoanalytic Reflections On Religion And Mysticism" By S. Kakar, Jeanne Marecek Aug 1994

Review Of "The Analyst And The Mystic: Psychoanalytic Reflections On Religion And Mysticism" By S. Kakar, Jeanne Marecek

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Gender And The Meaning Of Difference: Postmodernism And Psychology, Rachel T. Hare-Mustin , '49, Jeanne Marecek Jan 1994

Gender And The Meaning Of Difference: Postmodernism And Psychology, Rachel T. Hare-Mustin , '49, Jeanne Marecek

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Towards A Postmodern And Post-Western Psychology, Kenneth J. Gergen Jan 1994

Towards A Postmodern And Post-Western Psychology, Kenneth J. Gergen

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Psychological inquiry must necessarily proceed on the basis of assumptions for which there are no foundations. Such assumptions frame both the problems to be solved and the means by which they are to be approached. For the most part, 20th century psychology has been based on the presumptions of individual rationality, a rationally ordered cosmos, and language as a vehicle for reflecting this cosmos. However, a broad array of recent scholarship has challenged this, the modernist conception of the field. Postmodern arguments shift the center of rationality from the individual to relationships, see the cosmos as a socially constructed, and …