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Routledge International Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology is a compilation of works by leading scholars in theoretical and philosophical psychology that offers critical analyses of, and alternatives to, current theories and philosophies typically taken for granted in mainstream psychology.
List of contents
Section I. Alternative Conceptions of Psychology as a Discipline 1. Minds, Brains, or Persons? What is Psychology About? 2. Psychology’s Flawed Focus on Individuals and Individualism: A Strong Relationality Alternative 3. The End of Disembodied Mind: Fleshing Out Psychology 4. The Distorting Lens of Psychology’s Individualism and a Social Realist Alternative 5. Should Psychology Care About Metaphysics? 6. Philosophical Hermeneutics: Beyond Objectivism and Relativism in Psychology 7. Carving the Joints: The Ontology and Epistemology of Natural Kinds in Psychology; Section II. Alternative Conceptions of Fields Within Psychology: Positive Psychology, Development, Learning, Evolutionary Psychology, History, and Ethics 8. A Social Constructionist Critique of Positive Psychology 9. Striving for the Whole Toward an Organismic Theory of Development 10. Beyond Mechanism in Psychological Theories of Learning: A Hermeneutic Account of Embodied Familiarization 11. Reductive Naturalism and Evolutionary Psychology’s Empty Ethics of Enhancement: A Phenomenological Alternative 12. Psychology and the Significance of History 13. Philosophical and Political Lessons from the Hoffman Report: Toward a Hermeneutic Re-Moralization of Psychology; Section III. Alternative Conceptions of Self and Identity; 14. Who am I? Towards a Multi-Voiced Dialogical Self 15. Racial Identity and Transnational Migration: Black-Canadian and Indian-American Diaspora 16. A Critical Interpretative Psychology of Gender 17. Narrative Psychology and Beyond: Returning the Other to the Story of the Self 18. Subjectivity 19. Preserving Agency as a Human Phenomenon; Section IV. Alternative Conceptions of Psychological Inquiry 20. A Nonreductive "Person-based Ontology" for Psychological Inquiry 21. Why Human Inquiry Is Different than Natural Science Inquiry 22. The Participatory Perspective: Moving Beyond "Pro-World" Approaches to Theorizing in Psychology Without Adopting "Pro-Subject/Mind" Approaches 23. Metaphors, Idioms, and Clichés: The Rhetoric of Objectivity in Psychological Science Discourse 24. Existential Phenomenological Research: A "Human Science" Alternative for Psychology; Section V. Alternative Conceptions of Psychological Practices: Psychotherapy, Abnormality, Theorizing, Aging, and Marriage 25. The Virtue of Virtue for Psychotherapy: Contextualizing and Situating the Conversation 26. Subjectivity, Schizophrenia, and the Self: An Introduction to Phenomenological Psychopathology 27. The Praxis of Theorizing in Psychology: From Traditional to Critical Perspectives 28. Radicalizing Aging Theory in a Participatory Democracy: Critical Reflective Praxis of Phenomenology as Enacted Activism 29. Rethinking Marriage in a Post-Traditional Western World
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Routledge International Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology is a compilation of works by leading scholars in theoretical and philosophical psychology that offers critical analyses of, and alternatives to, current theories and philosophies typically taken for granted in mainstream psychology.
