Inventing our Selves : Psychology, Power, and Personhood Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Nominee (2020) A major bestseller in Japan

A major bestseller in Japan

and framed for crimes he didn't commit

a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police

He narrates a fascinating tale about the earliest human migrations out of Africa and the great cities of Angkor and Vijayanagar

pitting raw courage and cunning against insane violence and seemingly hopeless odds

Inventing our Selves : Psychology, Power, and Personhood Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Nominee (2020) A major bestseller in JapanInventing Our Selves proposes a radical new approach to the analysis of our current regime of the self, and the values of autonomy, identity, individuality, liberty and choice that animate it. It argues that psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and other "psy" disciplines have played a key role in "inventing our selves," changing the ways in which human beings understand and act upon themselves, and how they are acted upon by politicians, managers,