Toward the Psychological Humanities

Mark Freeman's inspiring account of the burgeoning field of the psychological humanities presents a clear and compelling vision of what the discipline of psychology might become.

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Mark Freeman is Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Society in the Department of Psychology at the College of the Holy Cross, USA. His writings include Rewriting the Self: History, Memory, Narrative; Hindsight: The Promise and Peril of Looking Backward; The Priority of the Other: Thinking and Living Beyond the Self; and Do I Look at You With Love? Reimagining the Story of Dementia.

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Introduction: Time for a Change

1. Openness to the Mystery

2. Interpretive Humility

3. Reverence for the Real

4. Reaching for the Poetic

5. Thinking Otherwise

6. Fidelity to Other Persons

7. Fidelity to the Otherness Within

8. A Space for the Ineffable

9. In the Service of Humanity (and Beyond)

10. Tear Down the Walls (in the Name of Love)