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What exactly is so fascinating about abnormal (deviant) personality that, in this postmodern age of ours, there is this popular critical discourse that “[t]he judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge,” and the like? (AC 2010) The popularity of this critical discourse is becoming a conventional wisdom in postmodern academia, which can be sharply contrasted with an opposing (yet developed) view in the mainstream medical establishment that “[i]f a person is behaving in ways counter-productive to their own well-being, it is considered maladaptive,” since this view “of abnormality is based upon medical diagnosis.” (WK 2010b) The two opposing sides of this heated contention—that is, the popular view of postmodern critical discourse and, alternatively, the developed view of the mainstream medical establishment—have powerfully prevented us from seeing the dark sides of both normal and abnormal characters, with the consequence of impoverishing our understanding of personality and its future. Contrary to the two opposing views, normal and abnormal characters are neither possible n

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Author

Peter Baofu

Publisher

Cambridge International Science Publishing

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781907343124

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology