ABSTRACT
More than an academic critique, Performing Psychology offers a new methodology for understanding human life. Arguing that both psychological activity and its study are essentially performance, Neuman and his colleagues expose the myths of mainstream psychology and the limitations of its postmodern challengers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |24 pages
Life As Performance
(Can You Practice Psychology If There’s Nothing That’s “Really” Going On?) LOIS HOLZMAN
chapter |24 pages
Beyond Narrative to Performed Conversation
(“In the Beginning” Comes Much Later) FRED NEWMAN AND LOIS HOLZMAN