Introduction: The Personal Is Still Political

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-79675-4_1 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-41

Author(s):

Natasha Distiller

Keyword(s):

Theoretical Framework ◽

History Of Psychology ◽

Human Being ◽

Human Psychology ◽

Self And Other ◽

Western Modernity ◽

History Of

AbstractThis chapter lays out the argument for a psychological humanities, as well as the theoretical framework for ideas developed in the rest of the book. It explains the concept of complicity, which is the term developed in the book to argue against binary thinking as a way of understanding human being and human psychology. The history of psychology as a discipline is outlined, in order to connect it to processes of Western modernity. The chapter defines binary thinking, the notion of self and other, and outlines the relationships between the different branches of psychology.

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Contributions to the History of Psychology: LX. Remarks about S. Howard Bartley as a Scholar, Scientist, and Human Being

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.2466/pms.1989.69.1.251 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 69 (1) ◽

pp. 251-257 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Thomas M. Nelson

Keyword(s):

History Of Psychology ◽

Human Being ◽

History Of

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Conclusion

10.1007/978-3-030-79675-4_7 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 245-251

Author(s):

Natasha Distiller

Keyword(s):

Common Sense ◽

The Other ◽

Human Being ◽

Historical Events ◽

Self And Other ◽

Western Modernity ◽

Way Of Thinking ◽

Cultural Formations

AbstractThe work of this book has been to engage with notions of human being that are mainstream in Western modernity. These common sense ideas have been forged and disseminated in the psy disciplines. I have sought to offer an alternative way of thinking about self and other that might alter how and why we think about our psychotherapeutic work. In the first chapter, I argued that the psy disciplines benefit when they learn from the humanities. In the final chapter, I outlined existing psychotherapy practices that already apply an understanding that human being is complicitous, even if those are not the terms they use. In between, I offered illustrations to bring into focus how systems of power evolve from specific historical events and from material practices, and then reinforce or underwrite these practices (see Kendi, 2016 for the example of racism in America as an illustration of how material practices can cause cultural formations as much as the other way around).

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