LIBROS DEL AUTOR: john riker

4 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: john riker

  • Kohut’s Self Psychology for a Fractured World
    John Hanwell Riker
    Drawing from Kohut’s conceptualisation of self, Riker sets out how contemporary America’s formulation of persons as autonomous, self-sufficient individuals is deeply injurious to the development of a vitalizing self-structure-a condition which lies behind much of the mental illness and social malaise of today’s world. ...
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    51,41 €

  • Exploring the Life of the Soul
    John Hanwell Riker / John Riker
    In this book, John Hanwell Riker develops and expands the conceptual framework of self psychology in order to offer contemporary readers a naturalistic ground for adopting an ethical way of being in the world. ...
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    50,42 €

  • Why It Is Good to Be Good
    John Hanwell Riker / John HRiker
    In Why It Is Good to be Good, John H. Riker shows how modernity’s reigning concept of the self undermines moral life and lays the basis for the epidemic of cheating that is devastating social and economic institutions. He argues that by accepting Kohut’s brilliant and original psychoanalytic concept of the self, modernity can have a naturalist account for showing why it is pers...
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    55,98 €

  • Human Excellence and an Ecological Conception of the Psyche
    John Hanwell Riker / John HRiker
    This book explores the possibility of grounding the idea of human excellence, which has traditionally been associated with hierarchical systems, on an ecological structuring of the psyche. Riker bases his concept on recent work in psychoanalytic theory, emotion theory, sociobiology, ethnogenic social psychology, and feminism, as well as on the insights of such philosophers as A...
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    47,29 €