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9781137415264

Human Development, Language and the Future of Mankind The Madness of Culture

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    9781137415264

  • ISBN10:

    1137415266

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2014-10-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Human Development, Language and the Future of Mankind offers a provocative and original analysis of the global threats to our survival. It identifies long-standing missteps in individual and cultural development that have led humanity into a widespread 'pathology of normality'. This madness is almost impossible to recognize because it has become the norm and its symptoms may even be admired, crippling humankind's efforts to counter the global dangers that we ourselves have created. Drawing on and integrating unorthodox thought from a broad range of disciplines including clinical psychology, linguistics, philosophy, natural science and psychoanalysis, this examination aims to alter the way in which our current global challenges are perceived, opening up new, previously inaccessible insights, and offering original and promising remedial approaches.

Author Biography

Louis S. Berger is a Clinical Psychologist based in the US, with experience spanning the fields of engineering, physics and music. He has been a Senior Researcher at the faculty of The University of Louisville, Department of Psychiatry, and a staff psychologist at Southwest Research Institute. He is the author of eight books and numerous papers.

Table of Contents

1.Understanding our Global Dangers
2.What is Language, and Why Does it Matter?
3.Infancy and First Language Acquisition
4.Literacy and Primary Orality
5.Ontogenesis and Pathology
6.Phylogenesis and Madness
7.Visions of Sanity
8.Toward Restorative Change

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