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Intrapsychic Humanism: An Introduction to a Comprehensive Psychology and Philosophy of Mind
by Martha Heineman Pieper, Ph.D., and William J. Pieper, M.D. (Falcon II Press, 1990)
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Intrapsychic Humanism Society

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The Intrapsychic Humanism Society

The Intrapsychic Humanism Society is a membership organization that promotes the study and application of the principles of intrapsychic humanism. The theory’s humanistic understanding of who we are and what motivates us can be applied to every aspect of our lives, including the issues we face as a global community. The Society sponsors lectures, panel discussions, and workshops on applying intrapsychic humanism to contemporary issues in diverse fields including education, business, early child development, social work, and child welfare. We also offer courses based on the groundbreaking ideas in the Piepers’ book Intrapsychic Humanism (1990). Committed to helping disseminate the ideas of intrapsychic humanism, the Society provides learning opportunities that allow participants to apply the principles of the theory in both their personal and professional lives. We invite you to become a member of the Intrapsychic Humanism Society. Your membership will support the activities of the Society and offer you a discounted rate on all events sponsored by the Society.
www.intrapsychichumanism.org

“Intrapsychic Humanism is the first presentation of a trailblazing, original psychology of the human condition. It advances a revolutionary developmental psychology, which generates a unified and inclusive theory of paradigmatic human experience, psychopathology, and psychological treatment. This exciting book has something for everyone: student, lay person, professional, parent, and anyone who has been reaching for psychological truth. It brims with thoughtprovoking insights which have immediate applicability to everyday personal and clinical experience.”

Antonia Bercovici Past President, California State Psychological Association; Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley

“The authors’ task, to present a new ontology of consciousness, its accompanying epistemology, and the implications for psychological treatment, is monumental in its scope and complexity… A stimulating and thought-provoking treatise.”

Jacob Kraemer Tebes Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, Yale University

“This is a groundbreaking new approach to personality development and the etiology, nature, and treatment of psychopathology. It is also conceptually innovative in that it breaks in several respects with features of the philosophical tradition. Most notably, it rejects the solipsism and rigid 1st person-3rd person (subjective-objective, inner self-outer world) dichotomy that has been both the dogma and the scandal of philosophy since Descartes. In this theory, the paradigmatic (or ideal) development of the child is founded on the establishment of a fundamental care-giving relationship between parent and child which, in development, yields a robust sense of self as agent, appropriate boundaries and relationships between that self and other persons and inanimate objects in the external world, and transforms the self into a competent care-giver. The causal and generative immediacy of this relationship bridges and voids the traditional gap between 1st and 3rd person, and places embodied, interacting, socialized selves in the world in a way that eliminates many traditional epistemological and ontological problems concerning the self. Perhaps more importantly, Intrapsychic Humanism provides an optimistic view of human nature, a new way of understanding our psychopathologies, and outlines a form of therapeutic practice for their treatment… it presents a challenging and important new perspective on our nature, our problems, and how we should deal with them.”

William C. Wimsatt Department of Philosophy, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, Committee on Conceptual Foundations of Science, the University of Chicago

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