The relationship paradigm : human being beyond individualism / Godfrey T. Barrett-Lennard.

"In this important new book, Godfrey Barrett-Lennard challenges the individualist focus of traditionalist psychology by proposing that the human condition is basically relational and interdependent. Rich in depth and scope, The Relationship Paradigm explores relationship systems over an absorbing vi...

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Main Author: Barrett-Lennard, Godfrey T. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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Physical Description:xi, 190 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
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  • PART I: HUMAN RELATIONSHIP: NATURE AND DOMAIN 1. The Idea and Variety of Human Relationships 2. Intricate Relations within the Person-organism 3. The Diverse Self in and from Relationship PART II: HUMAN DISTRESS AND THE WORKING OF SYSTEMS 4. Psychopathology or Disturbed Relationship? On Suffering, Disorder and Being Well 5. How Does Influence Work in Complex Relational Systems? PART III: UNFOLDING THE WORLDS OF RELATIONSHIP 6. Distinguishing Kinds of Relationship: An Ordering Scheme 7. Community as Relationship and Vicissitudes of Belonging 8. Large Organisations as Systemic World of Relationship 9. Relationships in, of and After War and Genocide 10. The Shared World of Human-animal Relations PART IV: RESEARCH AND THE NEW PARADIGM 11. Researching Relationships: From the Plural Self to Big Systems 12. Summing Up: The New Paradigm as a Way Forward.