Recent Trends in Theoretical Psychology: Selected Proceedings of the Fourth Biennial Conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psycholog

ISBN-13: 9780387979632 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 537 str.

International Society for Theoretical Psychology; Henderikus J. Stam; Leendert P. Mos

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I was asked and, alas, with little reflection on the magnitude of the task, thoughtlessly consented, to take on the 'simple' job of writing a preface to the collection of essays comprising this volume. That I was asked to carry out this simple task was probably due to one consideration: I was the main representative of the host institution (Clark University) for the 1991 ISTP Conference, at which the talks, foreshadowing and outlining the 'extended remarks' here printed, were originally presented, and hence, as a token of gratitude, I was vouchsafed the honor of setting the stage. It did not dawn on me, until I began piecemeal to receive and accumulate, over a period of months, the remarkably diverse and heterogeneous essays precipitated by the conference, how mind-boggling it would be to pen a preface pertinent to such an aggregate of prima/acie unrelated articles. Typically, prefaces to collections of essays from different hands are attempts by the prefator or a pride of prefators to provide an overview, a concise map, of the complex terrain which readers are invited to enter; or to direct the attention of potential readers to what the editors take to be the essential or central themes of each of the variegated articles: a practice which, not infrequently and often not unjustifiably, irritates and even enrages individual authors, who object to the complexity, profundity, and nuanced character of their thought being reduced to clicMs and editorial equivalents of sound bites.

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Keynote Addresses.- Bridgman’s “Operational Analysis” versus “Operational Definition” in Psychology: A Study in the Pathology of Scholarship.- Social Discourse and Moral Science.- Foundational Issues in Psychology.- Understanding Human Nature: A Post-Foundationalist Psychology.- Social Constructionist Psychoanalysis and the Real.- Psychological Theorizing in a Subject-Scientific Perspective: Determining Subjective Grounds for Action.- Discovery, Intentionality and the Constructionist Project in Psychology.- The Fear Of Relativism in Post-Positivist Psychology.- The Structuralist Program as a Methodology for Theoretical Psychology.- The Functional Level of Analysis in Psychology.- Hermeneutics of Lived Experience: The Foundations of a Historical Psychology.- Psychology of Science as a Contribution to Metascience.- Beyond Criticism in Psychology.- The Limits of Psychological Critique.- Is There Anything Beyond the Ideological Critique of Individualism?.- Questioning the Researcher’s Existence: From Deconstruction to Practice.- Beyond Objectivism and Relativism in Dream Interpretation.- Theoretical Studies in Psychology.- Stratification and Activity.- Association, Free Association and the Logic of Conversation.- Perspectives on Interpretation for Cognitive Science.- Understanding How We Understand Pictures: The Marr-Jackendoff Theory.- Social Motives Under Negotiation.- The Structure of Self in Schizophrenia.- The Pleasures of the Gulf War.- Critiquing the Lifeworld: Communicative Action and Psychotherapy.- The Mumford Effect in Psychology: Crisis in the Status of Psychological Paradigms.- Consistency and Chaos in Personality.- How Mental and Physiological Mechanisms Gear Into One Another.- Feminist Theory in Psychology.- Feminist Critiques of “Sex/Gender” as a Psychological Variable.- Psychoanalysis as a Critical Theory of Gender.- The Ideology of Beauty.- Emotions and Gender: A Conceptual Model of Emotions in Social Interaction.- Historical Contributions to Psychological Theory.- From Emancipating to Domesticating the Workers: Lewinian Social Psychology and the Study of the Work Process Till 1947.- Social Psychology Textbooks: An Historical and Social Psychological Analysis of Conceptual Filtering, Consensus Formation, Career Gatekeeping and Conservatism in Science.- Identity and Intimacy: Secular Mutations of the Inner Light.- E.G. Boring, C. Murchison, and Clark University: Research Practice and Practical Politics.- Developmental Theory.- What Should Developmental Psychology Be About?.- Existential Themes in Piaget’s Genetic Epistemology.- Hermeneutics and Moral Development.- The Reception of Vygotsky’s Ideas in the Nineteen Thirties.- Family Resemblance as a Model for the Stage Concept.- Beyond Discursive Relativism: Power and Subjectivity in Developmental Psychology.- Social Psychology and Social Distress.- Towards a Theory of Psychopathy and Social Distress.- Toward a Theory of Social Distress: Human Destiny or Social Experiment Gone Wrong?.- On Social Distress, Social Misery, Social Evil.- Skepticism and the Sociology of Rational Discourse.- Moods, Social Cognition and Motivation.- Applications of Psychological Theory.- Qualitative Research and Common Sense Psychology.- Why Does Methodology Change Over Time?: A Theoretical View and its Implications.- Contributions of Sociohistorical Psychology and Phenomenology to Research Methodology.- Patterns of Meaning and Power in AIDS-Related Psychology.- Choices in the Analysis of Theoretical Metaphors: The Metaphors of Family Systems Theory.- Author Index.