Critical Psychology - Contributions to an Historical Science of the Subject

This 1991 volume provides a coherent and broadly elaborated description of critical psychology.

List of contents

Preface; Acknowledgments; Contributors; 1. Critical psychology: an overview Charles W. Tolman; 2. Critical psychology: historical background and task Wolfgang Maiers; 3. Societal and individual life processes Klaus Holzkamp; 4. Experience of self and scientific objectivity Klaus Holzkamp; 5. Psychoanalysis and Marxist psychology Klaus Holzkamp; 6. Emotion, cognition, and action potence Ute Holzkamp-Osterkamp; 7. Action potence, education, and psychotherapy Ute Holzkamp-Osterkamp; 8. Personality: self-actualization in social vacuums? Ute Holzkamp-Osterkamp; 9. The concept of attitude Morus Markard; 10. Client interests and possibilities in psychotherapy Ole Dreier; 11. Play and Ontogenesis Karl-Heinz Brawn; 12. Functions of the private sphere in social movements Frigga Haug; Bibliography; Index.

Summary

Critical psychology constitutes a radical critique and reconstruction of scientific psychology from a dialectical and historical-materialistic point of view. Its aim is to provide a firmer foundation than presently exists for a psychology that is methodologically sound, practically relevant and theoretically determinate. This book was first published in 1991.

Product details

• Assisted by: Wolfgang Maiers (Editor), Charles W. Tolman (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2012
• EAN: 9780521393447
• ISBN: 978-0-521-39344-7
• No. of pages: 284
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 615 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / General