Admirable Evasions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Admirable Evasions write by Theodore Dalrymple. This book was released on 2015-03-24. Admirable Evasions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different schools of psychological thought. Most psychological explanations of human behavior are not only ludicrously inadequate oversimplifications, argues Dalrymple, they are socially harmful in that they allow those who believe in them to evade personal responsibility for their actions and to put the blame on a multitude of scapegoats: on their childhood, their genes, their neurochemistry, even on evolutionary pressures. Dalrymple reveals how the fashionable schools of psychoanalysis, behaviorism, modern neuroscience, and evolutionary psychology all prevent the kind of honest self-examination that is necessary to the formation of human character. Instead, they promote self-obsession without self-examination, and the gross overuse of medicines that affect the mind. Admirable Evasions also considers metaphysical objections to the assumptions of psychology, and suggests that literature is a far more illuminating window into the human condition than psychology could ever hope to be.
Summary of Theodore Dalrymple's Admirable Evasions
Summary of Theodore Dalrymple's Admirable Evasions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Summary of Theodore Dalrymple's Admirable Evasions write by Everest Media,. This book was released on 2022-05-23T22:59:00Z. Summary of Theodore Dalrymple's Admirable Evasions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The claim that we have greater insight into human nature than ever before is common. But it is a bold man who claims that he has greater insight than Montaigne or Shakespeare. #2 The first psychological scheme to provide the common man with the illusion of much expanded self-understanding was psychoanalysis. Then came behaviorism, after which there was cybernetics. Now, neuroscientific imaging and a little light neurochemistry persuade us that we are about to solve the mystery of human existence. #3 Freud was a brilliant man, but his career as a scientist was not. He was a liar who falsified evidence, a plagiarist who did not acknowledge his sources, and a self-aggrandizing mythologist who manipulated people. #4 The human mind is not straightforward, and we do not always know the reasons for our thoughts and actions. We can, however, recognize that we can think and direct our thought, and that we can check the accuracy of our thoughts for veracity, decency, and consistency.
Life at the Bottom
Life at the Bottom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life at the Bottom write by Theodore Dalrymple. This book was released on 2003-03-08. Life at the Bottom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A searing account of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does, written by a British psychiatrist.
Farewell Fear
Farewell Fear - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Farewell Fear write by Theodore Dalrymple. This book was released on 2012. Farewell Fear available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Farewell Fear is a collection of Theodore Dalrymple's finest essays written for New English Review between 2009 and 2012. His first such collection was Anything Goes (2011). Once encountered, Theodore Dalrymple has become for many of us a shared treasure-the cultured, often mordantly funny social commentator who was for many years a psychiatrist at a British prison. This collection of recent essays captures Dalrymple at his best, ruminating at one moment about why poisoners tend to be more interesting than other kinds of murderers and at another why Tony Blair's mind reminds him of an Escher drawing. No one else writes so engagingly and so candidly about the world as it is, not as the politically correct would have it be. -- Dr. Charles Murray author of Coming Apart and The Bell Curve
Anything Goes
Anything Goes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anything Goes write by Theodore Dalrymple. This book was released on 2011. Anything Goes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of never-before-seen pieces from one of Britain's most respected, admired and controversial commentators. Drawing on his vast experience as an inner-city doctor, Theodore Dalrymple, sometimes described as 'the Orwell of our times', examines the state of the NHS, the education system, British crime and criminal justice and, of course, politics. Eagerly awaited by his many fans, his stories dissect modern Britain in the way only Theodore Dalrymple can.
