Fearlessness Psychology: An Introduction

Fisher, Robert Michael

Fearlessness Psychology: An Introduction

dc.contributor.author	Fisher, Robert Michael
dc.date.accessioned	2019-05-29T14:26:06Z
dc.date.available	2019-05-29T14:26:06Z
dc.date.issued	2019-05-28
dc.description.abstract	The author tells of his resistances to and his love of “psychology” since his youthful years until the present. He sets up the most basic (inadequate) starting place for his new psychology or psychology in a ‘new key’ by placing his inquiry and explorations upon the reference of an “Indigenous Perspective” (or worldview). He calls this “fearlessness psychology” of which it immediately by name alone challenges that most all other psychologies available to humankind are fear-based in their conceptualization and in their offerings and thus no wonder the Fear Problem continues to blossom. He lays out the problematics of all he is doing here and claims that his entire exposition in this technical paper is necessary to go through—he believes it will communicate itself with a wider audience because of this—but his critical philosopher-self is constantly critical of just about everything he sets out—and, yet, there’s no room in this introductory paper to deal with all his philosophical critiques of his own work (and others). This he suggests, a conflictual tension throughout the paper, is probably a really good way to proceed creating a new psychology—which, he wishes he didn’t have to call a psychology per se. With that, the author proceeds to engage a fascinating array of ideas that potentially will change the way “Psychology” is conceived in the first place. The future, if it is to be at all healthy, sustainable and sane, ought to take this Fisherian path and the sooner the better. For it is worth, an improved universal ethical referent is needed, says the author and fearlessness psychology is one way to nourish that imperative and transformative option. A better wisdom and compassion, he argues is likely a consequence of this new psychology—which is not really a psychology.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Fisher, R. M. (2019). Fearlessness Psychology: An Introduction. 1-38.	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/36600
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/110441
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.publisher.faculty	Werklund School of Education	en_US
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en_US
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Technical Paper No. 79	en_US
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dc.subject	fear	en_US
dc.subject	fearlessness	en_US
dc.subject	fearlessnessizing	en_US
dc.subject	indigenizing	en_US
dc.subject	new psychology	en_US
dc.title	Fearlessness Psychology: An Introduction	en_US
dc.type	technical report	en_US