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This book shows why we need, and can create, a progressive politics that is profoundly informed by insights from the psychotherapeutic and psychological domain, moving us from a politics of blame to a politics of understanding.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cooper, Mick (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, an imprint of Bristol University Press, 2023.
Temas:
Social change > Psychological aspects.
PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Psychology at the Heart of Social Change: Developing a Progressive Vision for Society
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction: Progressive politics needs therapy
  • The challenge for progressives
  • Plan for the book
  • A psychology-informed progressive vision
  • Beyond social determinism
  • Understanding human needs and wants
  • A radical acceptance of the other: the principle of psychological equality
  • A humanistic psychological perspective
  • Understanding the other 'from the inside out'
  • Across the intrapersonal and interpersonal
  • Who is the book for?
  • My positioning
  • Summing up
  • 2 A psychology-informed progressivism v1.0: socialist humanism
  • A humane Marxism
  • What does it mean to be human?
  • Alienation
  • False needs
  • False consciousness
  • A return to full humanity
  • Critical reflections
  • The a-humanism of socialist humanism
  • A missing model
  • Is socialist humanism still relevant?
  • Summing up
  • 3 Understanding people: a contemporary framework
  • The agentic human being
  • Needs and wants as 'in-the-world'
  • Higher-order and lower-order needs and wants
  • What do people most fundamentally need and want?
  • Physiological needs
  • Safety
  • Pleasure
  • Growth
  • Relatedness
  • Autonomy
  • Self-worth
  • Meaning and values
  • Critical reflections
  • How do these highest-order needs and wants relate to each other?
  • A 'web' of highest-order needs and wants
  • A tentative list
  • Cultural and social factors
  • Individual variations and freedom to choose
  • What does this all mean for progressives?
  • Summing up
  • 4 Wellbeing and distress: a directional account
  • Wellbeing and the realisation of needs and wants
  • A sense of direction
  • Attainability
  • Approaching
  • Appreciation
  • Discussion
  • Limited external resources
  • Inner conflicts: when what we want is not what we want
  • Inner conflicts and limited external resources
  • Developing cooperative solutions
  • Discussion
  • Ineffectiveness: when we are not good at getting what we want
  • Unrealistic expectations
  • Summing up
  • 5 Conflict and cooperation, inside and out
  • Levels of organisation
  • Directionality across levels of organisation
  • Basic Human Needs theory
  • Wellbeing across levels of organisation
  • Preference utilitarianism
  • Enhancing wellbeing across levels of organisation
  • Conflict at different levels of organisation
  • Cooperation at different levels of organisation
  • Couples therapy
  • Mediation
  • International conflict resolution
  • Discussion
  • Game theory
  • Summing up
  • 6 Common principles of positive change
  • See the 'bigger picture'
  • Mentalisation
  • A 'universal' moral standpoint
  • Principled negotiation
  • Capitalism as a rogue goal
  • Fascism as a rogue goal
  • Ecocide as a rogue goal
  • Discussion
  • Take responsibility
  • Trust
  • Be nice
  • Prize diversity and difference
  • Be assertive

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