Turning Psychology into Social Contextual Analysis

ISBN-13: 9780367898113 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 162 str.

Bernard Guerin

Opis

This book puts the ‘social’ back into social psychology and offers a more integrated way of thinking about and researching people and intervening to change what people do. It is part of a trilogy that offers a new way of doing psychology focusing on people’s social environments as determining their behaviour, rather than internal attributions.

Spis treści

1. Where psychology went wrong 60 years ago: An erroneous turn at the fork in the Gestalt road  2. Going back to the ‘fork in the road’ and starting a fresh contextual approach  3. "Language is a socially transitive verb": Huh?  4. How can thinking possibly originate in our environments?  5. Contextualizing perception: Continuous micro responses focus-engaging with the changing effects of fractal-like environments?  6. Contextualizing emotions: When words fail us  7. The perils of using language in everyday life: The dark side of discourse and thinking  8. Weaning yourself off cognitive models

O autorze

Bernard Guerin has worked in both Australia and New Zealand researching and teaching to merge psychology with the social sciences. His main research now focuses on contextualizing ‘mental health’ behaviours, working with Indigenous communities, and exploring social contextual analyses especially for language use and thinking.