Advanced Guide to Psychological Thinking - Critical and Historical Perspectives

An Advanced Guide to Psychological Thinking examines various areas of psychology including learning, neuropsychology, child development, and psychotherapy from a critical and historical perspective. It reveals how different conceptual tensions have created confusion in the discipline and helps psychology recognize its own foundations.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter One: The Creation of Mind
Chapter Two: A Multiplicity of Psychologies
Chapter Three: Methods of Psychology
Chapter Four: The Principles of Learning
Chapter Five: Biology, Brain and Behavior
Chapter Six: On Developmental Thinking
Chapter Seven: The Cure of the Soul in the Age of the Therapeutic
Conclusion
Works Cited
About the Author

About the author

By Robert Ausch

Summary

An Advanced Guide to Psychological Thinking examines various areas of psychology including learning, neuropsychology, child development, and psychotherapy from a critical and historical perspective. It reveals how different conceptual tensions have created confusion in the discipline and helps psychology recognize its own foundations.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Ausch, Ausch Robert
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.11.2016
• EAN: 9780739195437
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-9543-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, Philosophy, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Physiological Psychology, Psychotherapy, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology