Inventing our Selves : Psychology, Power, and Personhood Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Nominee (2020) pitting raw courage and cunning

pitting raw courage and cunning against insane violence and seemingly hopeless odds

a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police

” makes the case that this is an untenable arrangement

and forever enigmatic courtesan Manon

A major bestseller in Japan

Inventing our Selves : Psychology, Power, and Personhood Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Nominee (2020) pitting raw courage and cunningInventing Our Selves proposes a radical new approach to the analysis of our current regime of the self, and the values of autonomy, identity, individuality, liberty and choice that animate it. It argues that psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and other "psy" disciplines have played a key role in "inventing our selves," changing the ways in which human beings understand and act upon themselves, and how they are acted upon by politicians, managers,