دانلود کتاب Revisioning Activism: Bringing Depth, Dialogue, and Diversity to Individual and Social Change

Many forms of activism live within the margins of conventional strategies such as marching, speaking out, and fighting for one's political representatives. This book of essays highlights, celebrates, and broadens the vision of activism to include the intersection between people and the social and political world, while encouraging dialogue across diverse viewpoints and exhorting psychology to become a social-change agent. The author deconstructs racism by looking at white denial and divergent views of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and he deconstructs sexism by critiquing the diet industry and the way women feel about their bodies. He brings this same psychological eye to understanding societal problems, national celebrities, and popular psychology's failure to create sustainable change. Whether used in a classroom or with a group, a friend, or alone, this book provokes critical thinking, feeling, and dialogue.Acknowledgments
Introduction
SECTION I

Racism, Anti-Semitism, and Homophobia: Witnessing Social Justice


1. The American Soul: Honoring Our Black Elders
2. MLK Today: Taking the Blinders off White Privilege
3. Dreaming King’s Dream Forward: Reflections on America’s Psyche
4. What’s the Matter with “All Lives Matter”?
5. America’s Deadly Denial of Racism
6. How to Have a Conversation About Race
7. The Holocaust and the Inner Ghetto: The Psychology of Jewish Suffering
8. I’m Not a Hypochondriac — I’m Just a Jew
9. Skull and Crossbones: Projecting onto Folks with HIV/AIDS
10. Paging Dr. Ben Carson: Homophobia Calling
SECTION II

Hunger, Self-Hatred, Failure, and Sexism: The Real Weight-Loss Story


1. Does America Really Need to Go on a Diet?
2. Do You Know Why You Eat? The Key to Losing Weight
3. Why Diets Fail: Seven Things You Should Know
4. Trying to Lose Weight? Satisfy Your Real Hungers
5. Shame, Body Image, and Weight Loss
6. Resolving to Lose Weight? Consider This First
7. Think Your Diet Needs More Discipline? Think Again
SECTION III

What’s Going On? Reflections on Current Events


1. Philip Seymour Hoffman and the Shadow of Individual Addiction
2. Diagnosing Depression in the Wake of Robin Williams’s Suicide
3. The Lie of Brian (Williams)
4. Who Cheats? Who Lies? Moving Beyond Lance Armstrong
5. Upon the Murder of 20 Children and 6 Adults in Connecticut
6. Scapegoating, Stereotyping, and Projecting Won’t Make Us Safer
7. Crazy About Gun Control
8. Upon the Boston Marathon Bombings
9. Racism on Trial: Reflections on the Prosecution of George Zimmerman for the Murder of Trayvon Martin
10. In Honor of Maya Angelou: This Caged Bird Sang and Sang
SECTION IV

Beyond a Popular Psychology: Remembering the Shadow


1. Into the Dark: A Psychology of Soul, Shadow, and Diversity
2. Building and Repairing Trust: Keys to Sustainable Relationships
3. Six Reasons Not to Forgive — Not Yet
4. Understanding Stress: Beyond Reduction, Management, and Coping
5. Three Things to Learn from Failure
6. Resolutions, Commitments, and All That Jazz: Five Reasons Why Resolutions Fail
7. To Compromise or Not to Compromise
8. I’m Sorry: Three Components of an Effective Apology
9. What Is Shame? How Does It Color Our World?
10. When “Questions” Shame: Learning to Be More Direct
11. Beyond Individual Psychology: How Psychology Shames
12. Winning the Battle with Inner Criticism
13. Understanding Dreams About Inner and Outer Criticism
14. Getting Real: Seven Roadblocks to Becoming Our Authentic Selves
15. The Courage to Find Soul: A Call for More “Psyche” in Psychology
16. Death, Dying, and Altered States: Bridging Two Realities
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author