Striving for the Whole: Creating Theoretical Syntheses

ISBN-13: 9781138515093 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 263 str.

Jaan Valsiner

Opis

This unusual collection explores the development of ideas in psychology's past, and shapes them into a valuable resource for ideas in the discipline's future, with particular emphasis on holistic traditions in psychology

Spis treści

Preface The Past and Future of the Whole, Chapter 1 Leibniz’s Dynamic Holism, Chapter 2 Christian von Ehrenfels, Chapter 3 Genetic Ganzheitspsychologie, Chapter 4 Felix Krueger and Ganzheitspsychologie: History of Psychology in Japan before and during World War II, Chapter 5 Ganzheitspsychologie in Heidelberg, Chapter 6 Jan Smuts and Personality Theory: The Problem of Holism in Psychology, Chapter 7 Janet’s Emotions in the Whole of Human Conduct, Chapter 8 Ernst E. Boesch’s Holistic Cultural Psychology, Chapter 9 Comparative Methodology as the Human Condition: Conwy Lloyd Morgan and the Use of Animal Models in Science, Chapter 10 Other Minds Than Ours, Chapter 11 A Holistic Perspective in Natural Sciences, Chapter 12 Dynamic Adaptive Psychology: Viewing the Individual through the Lens of Evolution and Development, Conclusion Returning to the Whole—A New Theoretical Synthesis in the Social Sciences, About the Contributors, Index

O autorze

Jaan Valsiner