The Loss of the Self in a Postmodern Therapeutic Culture

Calvin College

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Organizer:

Paul Vitz
NYU Department of Psychology
Washington Place, Room 579
New York, NY 10003
email: vitz@xp.nyu.edu

Participants:

John Bechtold
Associate Professor of Psychology
Messiah College
email: jbechtol@messiah.edu

David J. Burns
Professor of Marketing
Youngstown State University
Youngstown, OH 44555
Phone: (330) 742-1894
email: dburns@wcba.ysu.edu

Karen Coats
Department of English
Illinois State University
email: kscoat2@ilstu.edu

Bert Hodges
Professor of Psychology
Gordon College
email: hodges@gordon.edu

David Holley
Professor of Philosophy
University of Southern Mississippi
email: holley@usm.edu

Peter Jankowski
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Judson College
email: pjankowski@judson-il.edu

Sherri B. Lantinga
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Department Chair
Dordt College
498 4th Ave NE
Sioux Center, IA 51250-1697
Phone: (712) 722-6038
email: Lantinga@dordt.edu

Mark Lowery
Professor of Theology
University of Dallas
email: lowery@acad.udallas.edu

Kent L. Norman
Department of Psychology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD
Phone: (301) 405-5924
email: kent_norman@lap.umd.edu

James Norwine
Department of Geosciences
Texas A&M University - Kingsville
Phone: (361) 593-3589
email: james.norwine@tamuk.edu

Stephen P. Stratton, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Counseling
1 Macklem Drive
Asbury College
Wilmore, Kentucky 40390
Phone: (859) 858-3511, X2130
email: steve.stratton@asbury.edu

Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Associate Professor of English
Holy Cross College
email: ssweeney@holycross.edu

Glenn Weaver
Professor of Psychology
Calvin College
Grand Rapids, MI
email: weav@calvin.edu

Ronald W. Wright
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Southern Nazarene University
Phone: (405) 491-6682
email: rwright@snu.edu


Seminar Listserv: ss-vitz@calvin.edu


Reading list:

  1. Charles Taylor (1989). Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity, Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.
  2. Paul C. Vitz (1994). Psychology as Religion, the Cult of Self Worship, 2nd edition, Grand Rapids MI: Eerdmans.
  3. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (1999). Philosophy in the Flesh: the Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought, New York: Basic Books.

Reserved Reading list:

  1. Kenneth J. Gergen (1991). The Saturated Self, New York: Basic Books.
  2. Jose Luis Bermudez (1998). The Paradox of Self Consciousness, Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
  3. Benedict Ashley (1985). Theologies of the Body, Humanist and Christian, Braintree MA: Pope John 23rd Center.

Some links to on-line readings:


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