Agency, Health, and Social Survival: The Ecopolitics of Rival PsychologiesTaylor & Francis, 1996 - 190 pages Agency, Health and Social Survival addresses the interface of sociology and psychology, which its author argues is key to political change, Caroline New reviews academic positions on structure and agency, mental health and human nature theories; bringing out their implications for ecological politics. She suggests that effective social change, to end environmental destruction, is incompatible with our everyday notion of mental health as 'normal functioning'. Ecological activism has to be grounded in critical ideas of health as positive well being, and these in turn depend on theories of psychological human nature. |
Contents
Starting points | 12 |
Conflicting concepts of health | 29 |
Freud and the inevitability of discontent | 46 |
A social emotion | 70 |
Exposing the myth of agency | 87 |
Saved by synergy | 103 |
Needs and the vicissitudes of the self | 109 |
25 | 110 |
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Agency, Health And Social Survival: The Ecopolitics Of Rival Psychologies Caroline New Limited preview - 2015 |
Agency, Health And Social Survival: The Ecopolitics Of Rival Psychologies Caroline New Limited preview - 2015 |
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