Phil/Eric
Phil asks:
If psychological "order" and "disorder"; "well-being" and "disease";
"health" and "illness" are fictions, inseparable from the state of the
ecosocial system and the entire human organism, what is the focus of
psychology?
I would think of them as socio-cujltural construction associated with ranges of variation within
a community.
Psychology is, of course, also a socio-cultural construction which is not
very old and not culturally universal (part of the reason for reading Vygotsky
on the crisis in psychoology) and, perhaps not very functional. But within its
own terms, its focus might be said to be an attempt to understand those
ranges of variation and the subjective states associated with them.
I write her as a faculty member in a communication department (-:
mike
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