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An Introduction to Fred Newman and Psychology
(Foreward by Kenneth Gergen to Performing Psychology.)
The search for method becomes one of the most important problems of the entire
enterprise of understanding the uniquely human forms of psychological activity.
In this case, the method is simultaneously prerequisite and product, the tool
and the result of the study. Read
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Articles by Fred Newman toward a Postmodern Psychology
Where is the
Magic in Cognitive Therapy?
(a philo/psychological investigation)
What is the relationship between cognitive therapy
and common sense?
Is cognitive therapy an effort to analyze common sense
and to show how and when commonsensical thinking can
go astray and lead to emotional disorders? Or is cognitive
therapy an effort to make use of common sense in dealing
with those emotional disorders? Or is cognitive therapy
an effort to do both of those and more?
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All Power to the Developing!
Annual Review
of Critical Psychology 2003
Over nearly three decades we have described our work
(our politics) in many different ways. Perhaps this
is an expression or result of differing elements of
our joint
subjectivity—a moral and scientific aversion to labels and being labeled,
an intellectual delight in the search for a (never-realizable) linguistic precision.
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Undecidable Emotions
Journal of Constructivist
Psychology 2003
Social therapy, as I understand it, is done (performed) 2 with
groups of people. Hence, a most basic (theoretic) question, so
far as I can tell, is: what is a group? My answer(s) to this
question (fundamental to my understanding of psychology and therapy)
derive more from my studies of set theory and foundations of
logic and mathematics (which I have studied modestly) than from
anthropology or sociology (which I have not studied seriously
at all). Read
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Vygotsky's Tool and Result Methodology
Chapter 3, Lev Vygotsky Revolutionary Scientist 1993
The search for method becomes one of the most important problems
of the entire enterprise of understanding the uniquely human
forms of psychological activity. In this case, the method is
simultaneously prerequisite and product, the tool and the result
of the study. Read
more...
Therapeutic Deconstruction of the Illusion of Self
Performing Psychology 1999
I'm a little intimidated by my own title which rings rather academic.
But coming up with that title has been of value to me, because
it's made me think about some things that I haven't thought about
in this particular way for a long time. So let me share with
you what the title is about and maybe, if we can comprehend the
title together, we'll have made some kind of step forward. Read
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