Routledge International Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology: Critiques, Problems, and Alternatives to Psychological Ideas

ISBN-13: 9780367465650 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 620 str.

Brent D. Slife; Stephen C. Yanchar; Frank C. Richardson

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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.

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Section I. Alternative Conceptions of Psychology as a Discipline  1. Minds, Brains, or Persons? What is Psychology About?  2. Psychology’s Flawed Focus on Individuals and Individualism: A Strong Relationality Alternative  3. The End of Disembodied Mind: Fleshing Out Psychology  4. The Distorting Lens of Psychology’s Individualism and a Social Realist Alternative  5. Should Psychology Care About Metaphysics?  6. Philosophical Hermeneutics: Beyond Objectivism and Relativism in Psychology  7. Carving the Joints: The Ontology and Epistemology of Natural Kinds in Psychology;  Section II. Alternative Conceptions of Fields Within Psychology: Positive Psychology, Development, Learning, Evolutionary Psychology, History, and Ethics  8. A Social Constructionist Critique of Positive Psychology  9. Striving for the Whole Toward an Organismic Theory of Development  10. Beyond Mechanism in Psychological Theories of Learning: A Hermeneutic Account of Embodied Familiarization  11. Reductive Naturalism and Evolutionary Psychology’s Empty Ethics of Enhancement: A Phenomenological Alternative  12. Psychology and the Significance of History  13. Philosophical and Political Lessons from the Hoffman Report: Toward a Hermeneutic Re-Moralization of Psychology; Section III. Alternative Conceptions of Self and Identity;  14. Who am I? Towards a Multi-Voiced Dialogical Self  15. Racial Identity and Transnational Migration: Black-Canadian and Indian-American Diaspora  16. A Critical Interpretative Psychology of Gender  17. Narrative Psychology and Beyond: Returning the Other to the Story of the Self  18. Subjectivity  19. Preserving Agency as a Human Phenomenon;  Section IV. Alternative Conceptions of Psychological Inquiry  20. A Nonreductive "Person-based Ontology" for Psychological Inquiry  21. Why Human Inquiry Is Different than Natural Science Inquiry  22. The Participatory Perspective: Moving Beyond "Pro-World" Approaches to Theorizing in Psychology Without Adopting "Pro-Subject/Mind" Approaches  23. Metaphors, Idioms, and Clichés: The Rhetoric of Objectivity in Psychological Science Discourse  24. Existential Phenomenological Research: A "Human Science" Alternative for Psychology;  Section V. Alternative Conceptions of Psychological Practices: Psychotherapy, Abnormality, Theorizing, Aging, and Marriage  25. The Virtue of Virtue for Psychotherapy: Contextualizing and Situating the Conversation  26. Subjectivity, Schizophrenia, and the Self: An Introduction to Phenomenological Psychopathology  27. The Praxis of Theorizing in Psychology: From Traditional to Critical Perspectives  28. Radicalizing Aging Theory in a Participatory Democracy: Critical Reflective Praxis of Phenomenology as Enacted Activism  29. Rethinking Marriage in a Post-Traditional Western World