TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gerard Rodgers
PY  - 2018
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781788746571
TI  - Resisting the Power of Mea Culpa
T2  - A Story of Twentieth-Century Ireland
DO  - 10.3726/b15247
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1057533
N2  - This is both a memoir of childhood trauma and a searing work of social criticism. Through his own experience of clerical abuse and his struggle with the system that allowed it to happen, the author documents an important period of social change in Ireland. The aim of the study is to situate tough personal experiences in lifeworld contexts for the purpose of changing powerful beliefs and practices.  The author contends that psychological disciplines seldom interface with regional histories in a convincing way. The book is critical of dominant ideologies which reinforce acquiescence and exaggerate the power to act in the face of multilevel disempowerment. The author also maintains that old ways of knowing are still replicated in the structure of dominant psychological frameworks. A constancy principle of micro-regulation engenders mindful quietude and/or robust notions of psychological invulnerability. This truncated worldview comes at too high a cost.  The book will be of interest to historians, social commentators, psychologists and critical theorists, as well as those in the field of trauma, addiction and psychiatry.
KW  - Status Quo Quietude in 20th Century Ireland, Moulding Self-Abnegation, Systemic Mental Reservation
LA  - English
ER  -