Remythologizing culture: Narrativity, justification, and the politics of personalization

Journal of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 67-80

  Quackenbush, Steven W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT FARMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Consilience; Narrative; Naturalism; Social constructionism; Tree of Knowledge (ToK) System

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPMENT; EGO; ETHICS; HUMAN; LIFE; MORALITY; PHILOSOPHY; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGY; REVIEW; SCIENCE; SELF CONCEPT; THINKING;

ATTITUDE; CULTURE; HUMANS; NARRATION; PERSONALITY; POLITICS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 12144268301     PISSN: 00219762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jclp.20091     Document Type: Review

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