Re Envisioning Theoretical Psychology

Author : Thomas Teo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030167622

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This volume presents a re-envisioning of the field of theoretical psychology and offers unique visions for its present and future from leaders of North American philosophical psychology. It contends that theoretical psychology has reached ‘middle-age’ and must consider new directions to renew its growth. Rooted in a range of research traditions and the intellectual biographies of its authors, it paves the way toward this necessary revitalization of the content, activities, responsibilities, and hopes of theoretical psychology. The authors situate their analyses in the context of the increasing gap between alternative and mainstream and between the discipline and the profession of psychology. They demonstrate that changes in society, culture and technology, the internationalization of the psychological humanities, and the cross-fertilization of intellectual innovations from other disciplines now afford possibilities for new orientations in theoretical psychology. The volume aims to do justice to psychological topics, human beings, and the intellectual problems that psychologists encounter, while also providing space for (meta)theoretical engagement, often neglected in the discipline. Together, the chapters in this collection make the case that a renewal of the discipline and practice of psychology is a task that is best accomplished collectively, and, despite significant disagreements, in solidarity.

Author : Frank C. Richardson,Blaine J. Fowers,Charles B. Guignon
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999-03-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015042984289

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Re-Envisioning Psychology by Frank C. Richardson,Blaine J. Fowers,Charles B. Guignon Pdf

Does the practice of psychology make a significant and positive contribution to human welfare and the struggle for a good society? This book presents a reinvigorating look at psychology and its societal purpose, offering a bold new philosophical foundation from which professionals in the field can deeply examine their work.

Author : Parul Bansal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781040018415

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Re-envisioning Psychology by Parul Bansal Pdf

This book studies the ideological nature of mainstream scientific psychology. It raises critical questions about the dominant forms of psychological theorization and praxis, based on their validity, social relevance and power privileges. Re-envisioning Psychology critically interrogates scientific images of the mind, individual, gender, development, society and culture that mainstream psychology promotes. The issues taken up in this book revolve around the pivotal concerns of psychology’s scientific basis, its dominant quantitative research methodology, the construction of ‘individual’ as the unit of analysis, the conceptualization of ‘social’, ‘cultural’ and ‘gender’ in relation to individualism, and the understanding of abnormality as shaped by the discourses of medical science and capitalism. Comprehensive and topical, the book will be useful to students, researchers, and teachers of psychology, applied psychology, social work, gender and women studies, and sociology. It will also be of interest to professional counsellors and psychotherapists.

Author : Brent D. Slife,Stephen C. Yanchar,Frank C. Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 757 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000521931

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Routledge International Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology by Brent D. Slife,Stephen C. Yanchar,Frank C. Richardson Pdf

Routledge International Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology is a compilation of works by leading scholars in theoretical and philosophical psychology that offers critical analyses of, and alternatives to, current theories and philosophies typically taken for granted in mainstream psychology. Within their chapters, the expert authors briefly describe accepted theories and philosophies before explaining their problems and exploring fresh, new ideas for practice and research. These alternative ideas offer thought-provoking ways of reinterpreting many aspects of human existence often studied by psychologists. Organized into five sections, the volume covers the discipline of psychology in general, various subdisciplines (e.g., positive psychology and human development), concepts of self and identity as well as research and practice. Together the chapters present a set of alternative ideas that have the potential to take the field of psychology in fruitful directions not anticipated in more traditional theory and research. This handbook will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of the theory, assumptions, and history of psychology.

Author : Natasha Distiller
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030796754

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Complicities by Natasha Distiller Pdf

This Open Access book offers a model of the human subject as complicit in the systems that structure human society and the human psyche which draws together clinical research with theory from both psychology and the humanities to advance a more social just theory and practice. Beginning from the premise that we cannot separate ourselves from the systems that precede and formulate us as subjects, the author argues that, in reckoning with this complicity, a model of subjectivity can be created that moves beyond binaries and identity politics. In doing so, the book examines how we might develop a more socially just psychological theory and practice, which is both systems work and intra-psychological work. In bringing together ways of thinking developed in the humanities with clinical psychotherapeutic practice, this book offers one interdisciplinary take on key questions of social and emotional efficacy in action-oriented psychotherapy work.

Author : Leendert P. Mos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461564539

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Annals of Theoretical Psychology by Leendert P. Mos Pdf

This discipline has become more reflective in recent years. It has also become blatantly philosophical, which is itself cause for reflection. The philosophy of psychology has not been exactly a burgeoning field, and yet psychologists and philosophers of all persuasions are writing philosophical psychology. Perhaps all this activity merely reflects the uneasy bifurcation of psychology into biological and cognitive domains. After all, there were similar flurries in the 1920s and 1950s when the discipline assumed new directions. But, before, there were too many things to do; scientific knowing seemed so compelling and so singular in methodology. Today, the entire enterprise is much more uncertain, and not just psychology, but all human scientific inquiry. The fun damental questions remain much the same, of course; what has changed is that philosophers are explicitly addressing questions of psy chology and psychologists are at least implicitly engaged in philosophy. The bounderies are no longer clear cut! Theoretical psychology is as much the doing of philosophy as it is of experimental research. Volume 4 of these Annals attests to this state of affairs. The psychologists' style reflects their philosophical understanding; the philosophers differ according to what they take to be psychological knowledge.

Author : Jack Martin,Jeff Sugarman,Janice Thompson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780791486849

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Psychology and the Question of Agency by Jack Martin,Jeff Sugarman,Janice Thompson Pdf

Looks at the limits of free will in human action.

Author : Brent D. Slife,Stephen Yanchar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429949975

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Hermeneutic Moral Realism in Psychology by Brent D. Slife,Stephen Yanchar Pdf

Traditional sources of morality—philosophical ethics, religious standards, and cultural values—are being questioned at a time when we most need morality’s direction. Research shows that though moral direction is vital to our identities, happiness, productivity and relationships, there is a decline in its development and use, especially among younger adults. This book argues that hermeneutic moral realism is the best hope for meeting the twenty-first century challenges of scientism, individualism, and postmodernism. In addition to providing a thorough understanding of moral realism, the volume also takes preliminary steps toward its application in important practical settings, including research, psychotherapy, politics, and publishing.

Author : Thomas Teo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781137596512

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Outline of Theoretical Psychology by Thomas Teo Pdf

Outline of Theoretical Psychology discusses basic philosophical problems in the discipline and profession of psychology. The author addresses such topics as what it means to be human in psychology; how psychological knowledge is possible and what it consists of; the role of social justice in psychology; and how aesthetic experience could help us to understand the human condition. Proposing possible solutions to a range of such issues, Thomas Teo situates theoretical questions within traditional branches of philosophical inquiry: ontology, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics. This book argues that in order to improve psychology as a discipline and in practice, psychologists must reconceive the unit of psychological analysis, looking beyond individual capacity and even experience. By engaging with these basic philosophical problems, Teo demonstrates how psychology can avoid its common pitfalls and continue as a force for resistance and the good.

Author : International Society for Theoretical Psychology. Conference,Niamh Stephenson
Publisher : Captus Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1553220552

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Theoretical Psychology by International Society for Theoretical Psychology. Conference,Niamh Stephenson Pdf

Author : Sergio Salvatore,Jaan Valsiner,Alessandro Gennaro
Publisher : IAP
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781623960278

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Making Sense of Infinite Uniqueness by Sergio Salvatore,Jaan Valsiner,Alessandro Gennaro Pdf

YIS has been thought as an annual series of volumes collecting contributes aimed at developing the integration of idiographic and nomothetic approaches in psychological and more in general social science. At the beginning, 3 years ago, we got an agreement with an Italian publisher (FGP - Firera Publishing Group) interested in the scientific project and therefore willing to help the start up of this scientific enterprise. After publishing the first volume (YIS 2008- yet published in 2009 - the Volume is freely available on the FPG's website) we have had many positive feedbacks and signals of interests, as well as several submissions, from many parts of the world . This has provided an acceleration of the following issues - Above all, this led us to realize that it was time to give an editorial collocation to YIS that can be more consistent with the interest it has raised and that can ulteriorly raise. FPG does not put constraint on this perspective, being aware and agreed of the necessity of a worldwide context for the YIS's development. Moreover, there are no constraints in the possibility of going on in using the label "YIS," starting from Volume 4 The Series addresses a quite large potential public - students and researchers interested to theoretical and methodological development of psychology and, more in general, social science. Persons engaged with qualitative, dynamic informed models of analysis will find YIS a precious tool as well as a context enabling to develop a worlwide network of practices and cultures of research. The first three volumes' TOC witness how large and constantly increasing is the interest around the scientific project.

Author : Dennis M. McInerney,Herbert Marsh,Rhonda G. Craven,Frédéric Guay
Publisher : IAP
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781623962388

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Theory Driving Research: by Dennis M. McInerney,Herbert Marsh,Rhonda G. Craven,Frédéric Guay Pdf

Theory Driving Research: New wave perspectives on self-processes and human development provides a unique insight into self-processes from varied theoretical perspectives. The chapters in this volume develop avant-garde theoretical ideas to drive future, cutting-edge, empirical research and together, in one collected volume, make a valuable contribution to scholarly literature on self-processes. Among the themes covered are resurrecting the “I-self”, a re-look at the dichotomy between the I-self, and the Me-self based on James's analysis, the actualization of human potential, naturalizing and contextualizing the self, hypo-egoic states, personal proficiency networks, competition and performance relationships, achievement motivations, passion and optimal functioning in society, competence and self-worth threat, new interpretations of expectancy-value research, methodological advances in BFLPE research and multilevel models of student achievement motivation. This monograph, the fourth in the International Advances in Self Research monograph series, provides wealth of information on new theorizing and provides a platform for generating the next wave of research designed to understand the fundamental role self-processes play in human development.

Author : Frank C. Richardson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351400466

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Suffering and Psychology by Frank C. Richardson Pdf

Suffering and Psychology challenges modern psychology's concentration almost exclusively on eradicating pain, suffering, and their causes. Modern psychology and psychotherapy are motivated in part by a humane and compassionate desire to relieve many kinds of human suffering. However, they have concentrated almost exclusively on eradicating pain, suffering, and their causes. In doing so psychology perpetuates modern ideologies of individual human freedom and expanding instrumental control that foster worthy ideals but are distinctly limited and by themselves quite self-defeating and damaging in the long run. This book explores theoretical commitments and cultural ideals that deter the field of psychology from facing and dealing credibly with inescapable human limitations and frailties, and with unavoidable suffering, pain, loss, heartbreak, and despair. Drawing on both secular and spiritual points of view, this book seeks to recover ideals of character and compassion and to illuminate the possibility of what Jonathan Sacks terms "transforming suffering" rather than seeking mainly to eliminate, anesthetize, or defy these dark and difficult aspects of the human condition. Suffering and Psychology will be of interest to academic and professional psychologists and philosophers.

Author : Heather Macdonald,Sara Carabbio-Thopsey,David M. Goodman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000604559

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Neoliberalism, Ethics and the Social Responsibility of Psychology by Heather Macdonald,Sara Carabbio-Thopsey,David M. Goodman Pdf

This volume encompasses deeply critical dialogues that question how the field of psychology exists within and is shaped by the current neoliberal political context. Spanning from psychoanalysis to post-colonial theory, these far-reaching discussions consider how a greater ethical responsiveness to human experience and sociopolitical arrangements may reopen the borders of psychological discourse. With the understanding that psychology grows in the soil of neoliberal terrain and is a chief fertilizer for neoliberal expansion, the interviews in this book explore alternative possibilities for how this field of study might function. By offering their own unique responses regarding the current condition of their respective disciplines, these scholars critically consider the current conceptual frameworks that set the theoretical boundaries of psychology, and contemplate the ethical responsibility currently affecting the field. This book will prove essential for scholars and students across several disciplines including psychology, philosophy, ethics, and post-colonial and socio-cultural studies, as well as practising mental health professionals with an interest in the importance of psychological social theory.

Author : Mark Freeman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789004460607

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Do I Look at You with Love? by Mark Freeman Pdf

Do I Look at You with Love? explores the author’s mother’s dementia during her final years. Part narrative psychology, part memoir, Freeman’s story also highlights the beauty that may be found amidst of the ravages of time and memory.