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Cybernetic psychology and mental health : a circular logic of control beyond the individual / Timothy J. Beck.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beck, Timothy J., author.
- Series:
- Concepts for critical psychology
- Concepts for critical psychology : disciplinary boudaries re-thought
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cognitive neuroscience.
- Cybernetics--Psychological aspects.
- Cybernetics.
- Mental health.
- Cognitive Neuroscience.
- Mental Health.
- Medical Subjects:
- Cognitive Neuroscience.
- Cybernetics.
- Mental Health.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 165 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2020]
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Timothy J. Beck is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Landmark College. His research takes a critical, transdisciplinary approach in exploring how social boundaries are both regulated and persistently reconfigured through applications of psychological theories to problems related to "mental health."
- Contents:
- 1 Towards a technical history of thinking about human thought p. 8
- Technology as a medium for thinking about human thought p. 11
- The cybernetic foundation of current methods of psychosocial control p. 15
- Some social reasons for the research-practice divide in psy-disciplines p. 18
- (e)Merging overlaps across technoscience, data collection, and mental health p. 21
- 2 Cybernetic narratives beyond The Individual p. 25
- First-order cybernetics: engineering an impulse for psychosocial control p. 27
- Rethinking mental health in terms of second-order ecologies p. 31
- Gilbert Simondon and the role of affective modulation in transindividual networks p. 36
- 3 Three (psychological myths of auto-individuation (pseudo-AI) p. 45
- Psychoanalysis and the myth of psychic-individuation p. 49
- Behaviorism and the myth of operant-individuation p. 55
- Cognitive neuroscience and the myth of cerebral-individuation p. 66
- 4 Deinstitutionalization, biopolitics, and network maps of "mental disorder" p. 77
- From deinstitutionalization to the decentralization of mental health p. 80
- Biomedical neoliberalism and the ongoing cooption of deinstitutionalized care p. 86
- The edges and nodes of new computational diagnoses p. 99
- 5 Disorder without borders p. 104
- Protocological control and the dividualization of mental health p. 109
- Pre-individual investments underlying concepts of mental health p. 115
- Circulating diagnoses as social currency p. 120
- 6 The network as a mode of being p. 124
- The techno-politics of hacking p. 129
- Identifying the glitches in mental health programs p. 133
- From collective self-advocacy to network subjectivities p. 139.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 29, 2020).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Mary M. Kaufman Memorial Fund for Neuro-Science & Biomedical Engineering Source.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Beck, Timothy J.. Cybernetic psychology and mental health
- ISBN:
- 9780429287046
- 0429287046
- 9781000080339
- 1000080331
- 9781000080346
- 100008034X
- 9781000080322
- 1000080323
- Publisher Number:
- 99987426120
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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