Inventing Our Selves

Psychology, Power, and Personhood

By: Nikolas Rose, Rose Nikolas, Mitchell G. Ash (Editor)

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Paperback | 24 May 1999

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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. The aim of this critical history is to diagnose and destabilize 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, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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Non-Fiction Science Science in General History of Science Psychology The Self, Ego, Identity, Personality

Introduction
How should one do the history of 'the self'?
A critical history of psychology
Psychology as a 'social' science
Expertise and the 'techne' of psychology
Psychology as an 'individualizing' technology
Social psychology as a science of democracy
Governing enterprising individuals
Assembling ourselves
Notes
Bibliography
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