Title: Psychology for the other : Levinas, ethics, and the practice of psychology /
Authors: Gantt, Edwin E., 1965-; Williams, Richard N., 1950-
Publisher: Duquesne University Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Lévinas, Emmanuel; Lévinas, Emmanuel Ethics.; Psychologists Professional ethics; Other (Philosophy); Psychology; Ethics, Professional
Abstract: "In ten original essays by distinguished scholars - some philosophers, some clinicians, and some academic psychologists - the potential and the experiential impact of Levinas's work in the understanding of our fundamental human nature and the practice of psychotherapy are explored. Ultimately, the intention is to create a new discipline of psychology: namely, a "science of the ethical.""--Jacket.
Contents: Pursuing psychology as a science of the ethical : contributions of the work of Emmanuel Levinas / Richard N. Williams & Edwin E. Gantt -- Maternal psyche / Richard A. Cohen -- Utopia, psychotherapy, and the place of suffering / Edwin E. Gantt -- Pain, exposure, and responsibility : suffering pain and suffering the other / Robert Kugelman -- Levinas : the unconscious and the reason of obligation / James E. Faulconer -- Simplicity, humility, patience / George Kunz -- On being for the other : freedom as investiture / Richard N. Williams -- Diachrony, tuché, and the ethical subject in Levinas and Lacan / Suzanne Barnard -- Levinas and mainstream psychology : a conversation about common concerns / Robert John Sheffler Manning & Michael Chase -- A Levinasian psychology? perhaps-- / David R. Harrington.