{"product_id":"beyond-marginality-constructing-a-self-in-the-twilight-of-western-culture-hardcover","title":"Beyond Marginality: Constructing a Self in the Twilight of Western Culture - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRen? J. Muller\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIdentification of the phenomenon of marginality in \u003ci\u003eThe Marginal Self\u003c\/i\u003e--\u003ci\u003ethe failure to become one's authentic, best self, by refusing to actualize this potential that is inherent in us all\u003c\/i\u003e--turns on recognizing that freedom, and its misuse, underlie most human behavior, normal and pathological. Jean-Paul Sartre insisted that people don't just have freedom, they are freedom. Most philosophical anthropologies, including Freudian psychoanalysis, and the current medical model of mental illness propagated by the American Psychiatric Association and typified in the \u003ci\u003eDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)\u003c\/i\u003e, do not acknowledge this essential reality. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeyond Marginality\u003c\/i\u003e came out first eleven years after the initial 1987 publication of \u003ci\u003eThe Marginal Self\u003c\/i\u003e. The author, in the meantime, had become acquainted with the Zen philosophy of D. T. Suzuki, of whom Martin Heidegger said that if he understood this man's work correctly, Suzuki had accomplished what Heidegger had been trying to do all his life. What did Heidegger see in Suzuki's anthropology? That the Cartesian duality--ultimately the dissociation of our inner lives from the world around us and from one another--was a distortion created by us that we could overcome through Zen's actionable intuition of human wholeness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow this overcoming might be brought about is the theme of Beyond Marginality, starting with Suzuki's intuition and embracing the work of many allied thinkers. Equally compelling are vivid testimonials from those who had stumbled into marginality, some eventually recognizing the negative consequences of their misused freedom, then freely willing themselves out of their marginal states. Helping people move beyond marginality and its attendant psychic pathology parallels the present enthusiasm of the mental health community for a positive psychology. Gestalt psychologist Kurt Lewin left us with the counter-Cartesian, Zen-like insight that nothing is so practical as a good theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRENÉ J. MULLER\u003c\/b\u003e works for the Crisis Intervention Service at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Marginal Self\u003c\/i\u003e (1987) \u003ci\u003eAlembics\u003c\/i\u003e (1992), and \u003ci\u003eAnatomy of a\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSplitting Borderline\u003c\/i\u003e (Praeger, 1994).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 140\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 03, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42725971198015,"sku":"9781538192818","price":237.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/b7afdec4c663e16d0d7a295e164b9da9.webp?v=1765108708","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/beyond-marginality-constructing-a-self-in-the-twilight-of-western-culture-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}