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Theoretical Psychology - Contemporary Readings

Four Volume Set
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January 2012 | 1 848 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

This four-volume collection picks up the story of theoretical psychology in the 1980s, as it becomes a legitimate form of enquiry in its own right, and follows it as it develops through alternative and critical streams into the newfound fields of 21st century psychology, like situated cognition, embodied cognition, and extended mind theory. This collection can serve as the last word on modern theoretical psychology in its own right, or as a companion to the Classics in Theoretical Psychology collection.

Volume One: Contemporary Theoretical Psychology

Volume Two: Theory and Method

Volume Three: Cognitive Psychology, Cognition, Embodied Cognition

Volume Four: Contemporary Human Social, Developmental and Abnormal Psychology


 
VOLUME ONE: CONTEMPORARY THEORETICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Henderikus Stam
Introduction
 
PART ONE: THEORY, HISTORY AND CRITICAL THEORY
Daniel Robinson
Theoretical Psychology
What Is It and Who Needs It?

 
Kurt Danziger
Does the History of Psychology Have a Future?
Graham Richards
The Psychology of Psychology
An Historically Grounded Sketch

 
Geir Smedslund
Some Psychological Theories Are Not Empirical
A Conceptual Analysis of the 'Stages of Change' Model

 
Ian Parker
Psychoanalytic Theory and Psychology
Conditions of Possibility for Clinical and Cultural Practice

 
Jens Brockmeier
Remembering and Forgetting
Narrative as Cultural Memory

 
Don Ross and David Spurrett
What to Say to a Skeptical Metaphysician
A Defense Manual for Cognitive and Behavioral Scientists

 
John Greenwood
Psychological Ascription
Michael Billig
Commodity Fetishism and Repression
Reflections on Marx, Freud and the Psychology of Consumer Capitalism

 
Ute Osterkamp
On Psychology, Ideology and Individuals' Societal Nature
Henderikus Stam
Is There (Still) a Place for Theory in Psychology?
 
PART TWO: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM
Kenneth Gergen
The Social Constructionist Movement in Modern Psychology
Mike Michael
Discourse and Uncertainty
Postmodern Variations

 
James Mancuso
Constructionism, Personal Construct Psychology and Narrative Psychology
Rom Harré et al
Recent Advances in Positioning Theory
John Shotter
In Conversation
Joint Action, Shared Intentionality and Ethics

 
 
PART THREE: FEMINISM
Morny Joy
Feminism and the Self
Betty Bayer and Kareen Malone
Feminism, Psychology and Matters of the Body
 
PART FOUR HERMENEUTICS AND PHENOMENOLOGY
Frank Richardson and Robert Woolfolk
Social Theory and Values
A Hermeneutic Perspective

 
Robert Kugelmann
The Psychology and Management of Pain
Gate Control as Theory and Symbol

 
 
VOLUME TWO: THEORY AND METHOD
Sigmund Koch
Psychology's Bridgman versus Bridgman's Bridgman
An Essay in Reconstruction

 
Christopher Green
Of Immortal Mythological Beasts
Operationism in Psychology

 
Mark Bickhard
Myths of Science
Misconceptions of Science in Contemporary Psychology

 
Peter Halpin and Henderikus Stam
Inductive Inference or Inductive Behavior
Fisher's and Neyman-Pearson's Approaches to Statistical Testing in Psychological Research (1940-1960)

 
Joel Michell
Normal Science, Pathological Science and Psychometrics
Hart Blanton and James Jaccard
Arbitrary Methods in Psychology
Lisa Osbeck
Method and Theoretical Psychology
Ruma Falk and Charles Greenbaum
Significance Tests Die Hard
The Amazing Persistence of a Probabilistic Misconception

 
Joachim Krueger
Null Hypothesis Significance Testing
On the Survival of a Flawed Method

 
David Sohn
Statistical Significance and Replicability
Why the Former Does Not Presage the Latter

 
Michael Wallach and Lise Wallach
When Experiments Serve Little Purpose
Misguided Research in Mainstream Psychology

 
Tammi Vacha-Haase et al
Reporting Practices and APA Editorial Policies Regarding Statistical Significance and Effect Size
R. Hertwig and A. Ortmann
Experimental Practices in Economics
A Methodological Challenge for Psychologists?

 
Jill Morawski
Reflexivity and the Psychologist
Huib Looren de Jong
Causal and Functional Explanations
A. Machado and F.J. Silva
Toward a Richer View of the Scientific Method
The Role of Conceptual Analysis

 
L.D. Smith
Constructing Knowledge
The Role of Graphs and Tables in Hard and Soft Psychology

 
 
VOLUME THREE: COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, COGNITION, EMBODIED COGNITION, EVOLUTION
Joseph Rychlak
A Teleological Critique of Modern Cognitivism
Lola Lopes
The Rhetoric of Irrationality
Sacha Bem and Fred Keijzer
Recent Changes in the Concept of Cognition
Elizabeth Wilson
'Loving the Computer'
Cognition, Embodiment and the Influencing Machine

 
Huib Looren de Jong
Some Remarks on a Relational Concept of Mind
Yanina Shapiro
Consciousness According to James
Forgetting, Disregarding and Other Selective Activities of Bodies-and-Brains

 
Peter Machamer and Justin Sytsma
Neuroscience and Theoretical Psychology
What's to Worry about?

 
Nancy Nersessian
Model-Based Reasoning in Distributed Cognitive Systems
Jelle van Dijk et al
Can There Be Such a Thing as Embodied Embedded Cognitive Neuroscience?
Sarah Kember
Metamorphoses
The Myth of Evolutionary Possibility

 
Thomas Metzinger
Précis
Being No One

 
Ned Block
Consciousness, Accessibility and the Mesh between Psychology and Neuroscience
Jonathan Potter
Post-Cognitive Psychology
Nicholas Evans and Stephen Levinson
The Myth of Language Universals
Language Diversity and Its Importance for Cognitive Science

 
Wes Sharrock and Jeff Coulter
On What We Can See
Gerd Gigerenzer and Henry Brighton
Home Heuristicus
Why Biased Minds Make Better Inferences

 
Maarten Derksen
Against Integration
Why Evolution Cannot Unify the Social Sciences

 
 
VOLUME FOUR: ALTERITY AND SOCIALITY, DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE, ABNORMAL AND PATHOLOGICAL THEORIES
Rom Harré
The Discursive Production of Selves
Hubert Hermans, Harry Kempen and Rens van Loon
The Dialogical Self
Beyond Individualism and Rationalism

 
Harwood Fisher
Whose Right Is It to Define the Self?
Kenneth Gergen
The Place of the Psyche in a Constructed World
Joshua Soffer
Embodied Perception
Redefining the Social

 
A. Alexandra Michel and Stanton Wortham
Clearing away the Self
 
PART ONE: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Alan Costall
Socializing Affordances
Alan Radley
Displays and Fragments
Embodiment and the Configuration of Social Worlds

 
Theodore Sarbin
The Poetics of Identity
Patrick Mollaret
Using Common Psychological Terms to Describe Other People
From Lexical Hypothesis to Polysemous Conception

 
 
PART TWO: DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Susan Oyama
How Shall I Name Thee? The Construction of Natural Selves
Marie Santiago-Delefosse and J-M. Oderic Delefosse
Spielrein, Piaget and Vygotsky
Three Positions on Child Thought and Language

 
John Jost
Toward a Wittgensteinian Social Psychology of Human Development
Esther Thelen et al
The Dynamics of Embodiment
A Field Theory of Infant Preservative Reaching

 
Ivan Leudar and Alan Costall
On the Persistence of the 'Problem of Other Minds' in Psychology
Chomsky, Grice and Theory of Mind

 
 
PART THREE : ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Suzanne Kirschner
Between Idealization and Denigration
Recent Revisionist Approaches to the History of Psychoanalysis

 
Daniel Robinson
Therapy as Theory and as Civics
Louis Sass
'Schizophrenic Person' or 'Person with Schizophrenia'? An Essay on Illness and the Self
Konstantinos Katsikopoulos et al
From Meehl to Fast and Frugal Heuristics (and Back)
New Insights into How to Bridge the Clinical-Actuarial Divide

 
Matthew Erdelyi
The Unified Theory of Repression
Henderikus Stam
Theorizing Health and Illness
Functionalism, Subjectivity and Reflexivity