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.

chapter |4 pages

Foreword

KENNETH GERGEN

chapter |28 pages

Introduction

LOIS HOLZMAN

chapter |16 pages

Life Upon the Wicked Stage

FRED NEWMAN

chapter |24 pages

Life As Performance

(Can You Practice Psychology If There’s Nothing That’s “Really” Going On?) LOIS HOLZMAN

chapter |14 pages

Diagnosis:

FRED NEWMAN AND KENNETH GERGEN

chapter |24 pages

Beyond Narrative to Performed Conversation

(“In the Beginning” Comes Much Later) FRED NEWMAN AND LOIS HOLZMAN

chapter |22 pages

A Therapeutic Deconstruction of the Illusion of Self

FRED NEWMAN

chapter |14 pages

The Story of Truth (A Whodunit)

or Philosophie dans la Théâtre FRED NEWMAN

chapter 22|40 pages

Weeks of Pointless Conversation

DAN FRIEDMAN