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Kristeva begins with the personal and moves outward by examining world literature and philosophy. Wilson, author of strangers to ourselves, whose work has been acclaimed by writers such as malcolm gladwell, is a groundbreaking book of psychology that shows how. For years, my favorite has been devonthink pro office. I have used it for law school, professional use, organizing my research for publication, collecting snippets of information, capturing web pages, and otherwise organizing all those bits that. Wilson makes in redirect is that people have key narratives stories about themselves and that, when these key narratives are rewritten, peoples lives can be changed. Wilson is an american social psychologist and writer. What i was looking for, based on the title, was a well. Wilson introduces a hidden mental world of judgements, feelings, and motives that introspection may never show. The surprising new science of psychological change.
Showing us an unconscious more powerful than freuds, and even more pervasive in our daily life, strangers to ourselves marks a revolution in how we know ourselves. Some or all works by this author are released under the creative commons attributionsharealike 3. There are pockets of research on selfknowledge in different subdisciplines of the. There are few academics who write with as much grace and. The surprising new science of psychological change, social psychologist timothy wilson reveals insights from three decades of empirical evidence. Wilson1 at the dawn of human consciousness, when people first gained the ability to reflect upon the world around them, it seems likely that they turned the spotlight of consciousness inward to try to understand themselves.
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