Values, Self and Society: Toward a Humanist Social Psychology

ISBN-13: 9781412865562 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 310 str.

M. Brewster Smith

Opis

In a tough opening statement, M. Brewster Smith outlines his own life course and contrasts it with the agenda of social psychology in the present professional moment.

Spis treści

I: Values and Selfhood; 1: Psychology and Values; 2: Perspectives on Selfhood; 3: Attitudes, Values, and Selfhood; 4: The Metaphorical Basis of Selfhood; II: Humanistic Psychology and Human Science; 5: Toward a Secular Humanistic Psychology; 6: Metapsychology, Politics, and Human Needs; 7: Encounter Groups and Humanistic Psychology; 8: Can There Be A Human Science?; 9: Psychology and the Decline of Positivism: The Case for a Human Science; 10: Beyond Aristotle and Galileo: Toward a Contextualized Psychology of Persons; III: Humanism and Social Issues; 11: Psychology in the Public Interest: What Have We Done? What Can We Do?; 12: McCarthyism: A Personal Account; 13: War, Peace, and Psychology; 14: Value Dilemmas and Public Health; 15: Hope and Despair: Keys to the Sociopsychodynamics of Youth; Epilogue: Social Psychology as Human Science

O autorze

Mahlon Brewster Smith