Product Description: Golden Book 2001 1st ed, complete # row 10-1, hardcover

Product Description: How do we reconstruct our world when modernist ideas have been refuted and many social problems appear unsolvable? Fred Newman and Lois Holzman offer the alternative of "performed activity"--a non-academic way forward to develop and add meaning to our lives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Detailed instructions on how to make rude noises, or whistle, and imitate the sounds of appliances, animals, and musical instruments

Product Description: Book by Newman, Fred

Taking a "post-postmodern" approach to the current crisis in psychology, this text is at once a narrative of the family history of philosophy, modern science and psychology, and a critique of methodology in current psychological practice. Arguing that psychology today is a pseudoscientific hoax, the authors deconstruct three of its most powerful myths: the myth of the individual; the myth of mental health; and the myth of development. They tell the story of how these myths were constructed out of age-old philosophical abstractions to create a world and a discourse of godlike psychological objects. Synthesizing the anti-foundationalism of two "pre-modernists", Lev Vygotsky and Ludwig Wittgenstein, the authors urge the construction of a distinctly unscientific psychology - an approach to understanding that human life is cultural, relational, and performatory rather than scientific.