Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology

Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology
Author: Brad Piekkola
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2016-12-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1473987199

This book covers key movements that helped to shape psychology – from the early philosophical debate between rationalism and empiricism or realists and antirealists through to the emergence of psychology as a science and the ongoing debates about ‘objectivity’ and ‘truth’ and what a science of psychology should be. Often nuanced and complex, the author examines major conceptual issues in the history of psychology that continue to be debated and influence public policy and lay understanding. The latter stages of the book explore notions of individuality, hereditarianism, critical psychology, and feminist perspectives. While deeply rooted in human history, it is made clear that psychology, how it is conceived and practiced, has a bearing on our understanding of what it is to be human. Accessible, objective and above all comprehensive, this book will help students locate psychology in the wider field of science and understand the forces that continue to shape and define it.

Historical and Conceptual Issues in Psychology

Historical and Conceptual Issues in Psychology
Author: Marc Brysbaert
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 605
Release: 2012-09-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780273743675

The 2nd edition of Historical and Conceptual issues in Psychology offers a lively and engaging introduction to the main issues underlying the emergence and continuing evolution of psychology.

Key Thinkers in Psychology

Key Thinkers in Psychology
Author: Rom Harre
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2006
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781412903448

The author presents an accessible textbook combining the personal history of the major protagonists of the last century organised by 'schools of thought', with their significant contributions to the discipline.

Theoretical Issues in Psychology

Theoretical Issues in Psychology
Author: Sacha Bem
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2013-05-22
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1446281434

An essential overview of theoretical issues in psychology with pedagogical features to help students identify key terms and concepts.

Critical Psychology Praxis

Critical Psychology Praxis
Author: Robert K. Beshara
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2021-02-25
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1000350983

This collection of chapters advances critical psychology by incorporating praxis (theory and practice) and decolonial streams of thought. They are united around a theme of psychosocial non-alignment to modernity/coloniality. Bringing together a transdisciplinary range of authors from around the world, this edited volume weaves together a spectrum of complex arguments and perspectives to lay the foundations for bridging the Global North–South divide in critical psychology through solidarity and dialogue. The book’s central argument is to emphasize praxis and transdisciplinarity over disciplinary fundamentalism. Psychology is only a starting point and not the end goal of critique in this book; incidentally, some of the authors are not even psychologists. Instead, the book draws on decolonial theoretical resources, such as Chican@ Studies, Black Male Studies, and Critical Pedagogy, to complement traditional theoretical resources like psychoanalysis, Marxism, poststructuralism, and feminism. This groundbreaking text is suitable for scholars and upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students studying critical discourse, the psychology and philosophy of post-coloniality, conceptual and historical issues in psychology, as well as anthropology and sociology courses engaging with action research.

Naming the Mind

Naming the Mind
Author: Kurt Danziger
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1997-05-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780803977631

In this work, the author explains how modern psychology found its language by examining the historically changing structure of psychological discourse and offering an analysis of the recent evolution of the concepts and categories on which the quality of psychological discourse depends.

The Psychology Book

The Psychology Book
Author: Wade E. Pickren
Publisher: Union Square + ORM
Total Pages: 1157
Release: 2014-05-20
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1402792352

This “profusely and beautifully illustrated” historical survey of psychology from prehistory to modern times is “ideal” and “highly recommended.” (Midwest Book Review) What could be more fascinating than the workings of the human mind? This stunningly illustrated survey in Sterlings Milestones series chronicles the history of psychology through 250 landmark events, theories, publications, experiments, and discoveries. Beginning with ancient philosophies of well-being, it touches on such controversial topics as phrenology, sexual taboos, electroshock therapy, multiple personality disorder, and the nature of evil.

The Philosophy of Psychology

The Philosophy of Psychology
Author: William O′Donohue
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1996-10-30
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0857026127

This major text provides the first comprehensive anthology of the key topics arising in the philosophy of psychology. Bringing together internationally renowned authors, including Herb Simon, Karl Pribram, Joseph Rychlak, Ullin T Place and Adolf Gr[um]unbaum, this volume offers a stimulating and informative addition to contemporary debate. With the cognitive revolution of the 1960s, there has been a resurgence of interest in the study of the philosophical assumptions and implications of psychology. Several significant themes, such as the foundations of knowledge, behaviourism, rationality, emotion and cognitive science span both philosophy and psychology, and are covered here along with a wide range of issues in the fields of folk psychology, clinical psychology, neurophysiology and professional ethics.

Theoretical Issues in Psychology

Theoretical Issues in Psychology
Author: Sacha Bem
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2006
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780761942016

This thoroughly revised edition of the classic textbook explores a wide range of problems in psychology, philosophy, cognitive and brains sciences, identifying the major topics, debates, and controversies and presenting them in a balanced and accessible manner for students.

Outline of Theoretical Psychology

Outline of Theoretical Psychology
Author: Thomas Teo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2018-05-08
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1137596511

Outline of Theoretical Psychology discusses basic philosophical problems in the discipline and profession of psychology. The author addresses such topics as what it means to be human in psychology; how psychological knowledge is possible and what it consists of; the role of social justice in psychology; and how aesthetic experience could help us to understand the human condition. Proposing possible solutions to a range of such issues, Thomas Teo situates theoretical questions within traditional branches of philosophical inquiry: ontology, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics. This book argues that in order to improve psychology as a discipline and in practice, psychologists must reconceive the unit of psychological analysis, looking beyond individual capacity and even experience. By engaging with these basic philosophical problems, Teo demonstrates how psychology can avoid its common pitfalls and continue as a force for resistance and the good.