The book applies a unique mix of psychosocial methods to understand the complexity of emotional, cognitive and ideological responses to human rights violations and examines the banal quality of the everyday vocabularies that people use to make sense of human rights and their violations, and justify not intervening. In Passivity Generation, Irene Bruna Seu offers a vivid and compassionate account of how past experiences of trauma and suffering affect individual (un)responsiveness, and explores the psychodynamics of passivity and its underpinning defence mechanisms.
Format: Paperback / softbackCONTRIBUTORS: Irene Bruna SeuEAN: 9781349454679COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 3406 gHEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave MacmillanDATE PUBLISHED: 2013-10-30CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Social PsychologyWIDTH: 140 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Political science and theory, Ethics and moral philosophy
'Seu's nuanced discussion of the widespread borrowing by participants of vocabularies or scripts from other contexts, the complex interaction of such scripts (the 'web of passivity'), and the psychological defence mechanisms used to sustain them, is both perceptive and breaks new ground.' - Journal of Human Rights Practice
Irene Bruna Seu is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Her books include Who am I? The Self and the Ego in Psychoanalysis and Feminism and Psychotherapy: Reflections on Contemporary Theory and Practice (co-editor). Her main research interests are human rights, social responsibility and helping behaviour, gender, and psychoanalysis, reflecting an intellectual interest in Western culture and values, and a political commitment to the attainment of a just society.
The book applies a unique mix of psychosocial methods to understand the complexity of emotional, cognitive and ideological responses to human rights violations and examines the banal quality of the everyday vocabularies that people use to make sense of human rights and their violations, and justify not intervening. In Passivity Generation, Irene Bruna Seu offers a vivid and compassionate account of how past experiences of trauma and suffering affect individual (un)responsiveness, and explores the psychodynamics of passivity and its underpinning defence mechanisms.
Format: Paperback / softbackCONTRIBUTORS: Irene Bruna SeuEAN: 9781349454679COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 3406 gHEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave MacmillanDATE PUBLISHED: 2013-10-30CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Social PsychologyWIDTH: 140 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Political science and theory, Ethics and moral philosophy
Irene Bruna Seu is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Her books include Who am I? The Self and the Ego in Psychoanalysis and Feminism and Psychotherapy: Reflections on Contemporary Theory and Practice (co-editor). Her main research interests are human rights, social responsibility and helping behaviour, gender, and psychoanalysis, reflecting an intellectual interest in Western culture and values, and a political commitment to the attainment of a just society.
