The Wiley Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology presents a comprehensive exploration of the wide range of methodological approaches utilized in the contemporary field of theoretical and philosophical psychology.
The Wiley Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology presents a comprehensive exploration of the wide range of methodological approaches utilized in the contemporary field of theoretical and philosophical psychology. Gathers together for the first time all the approaches and methods that define scholarly practice in theoretical and philosophical psychology Chapters explore various philosophical and conceptual approaches, historical approaches, narrative approaches to the nature of human conduct, mixed-method studies of psychology and psychological inquiry, and various theoretical bases of contemporary psychotherapeutic practices Features contributions from ten Past Presidents of the Society of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, along with several Past Presidents of other relevant societies
About the Contributors viii Acknowledgments xv 1 Editors’ Introduction 1 Jack Martin, Jeff Sugarman, and Kathleen L. Slaney Part I Philosophical/Conceptual Approaches 21 2 Philosophical Anthropology 23 Matthew LaVine and Michael A. Tissaw 3 Conceptual Analysis 39 Timothy P. Racine 4 Philosophical Hermeneutics 53 Frank C. Richardson 5 An Aristotelian Analysis of the Structure of Human Action 70 Blaine J. Fowers 6 Phenomenology: Methods, Historical Development, and Applications in Psychology 85 Frederick J. Wertz 7 Theory for and as Social Practice of Realizing the Future: Implications from a Transformative Activist Stance 102 Anna Stetsenko 8 Rhetoric and Psychology: Ending the Dominance of Nouns 117 Michael Billig and Cristina Marinho Part II Historical Approaches 133 9 Historical Thinking as a Tool for Theoretical Psychology: On Objectivity 135 Thomas Teo 10 The History of Psychological Objects 151 Adrian Charles Brock 11 Historical Ontology 166 Jeff Sugarman 12 Historiometry 183 Dean Keith Simonton 13 Statistical Thinking in Psychological Research: In Quest of Clarity through Historical Inquiry and Conceptual Analysis 200 James T. Lamiell Part III Narrative and Social Psychological Approaches 217 14 Narrative Psychology and Life Stories 219 Ruthellen Josselson and Brent Hopkins 15 Narrative Hermeneutics 234 Mark Freeman 16 Life Positioning Analysis 248 Jack Martin 17 Positioning Theory 263 Rom Harré 18 The Personal Position Repertoire (PPR) Method as Based on Dialogical Self Theory 277 Hubert J.M. Hermans 19 Subjectivity as Socioculturally Constituted Experience 293 Suzanne R. Kirschner 20 A Transdisciplinary Psychosocial Approach 308 Paul Stenner Part IV Theoretical Studies of Scientific, Professional, and Life Practices 325 21 Allies in Interdisciplinary Spaces: Theoretical Psychology and Science Studies 327 Kareen Ror Malone and Lisa M. Osbeck 22 “I’m Not That Kind of Psychologist”: A Case for Methodological Pragmatism in Theoretical Inquiries into Psychological Science Practices 343 Kathleen L. Slaney 23 The Value of Experiments in Psychology 359 Jan Smedslund 24 Feminism and Theoretical Psychology 374 Alexandra Rutherford, Kate Sheese, and Nora Ruck 25 Surprisability and Practical Rationality: Knowledge Advancement through the Explication of Interpretation 392 Brent D. Slife, Clayton T. Johnson, and Amy C. Jennings 26 Empirical Philosophy: Using Your Everyday Life in Theoretical Psychology 409 Svend Brinkmann 27 Theoretical Bases of Psychotherapeutic Practices 424 John Chambers Christopher, Samuel C. Gable, and David M. Goodman 28 Contemporary Psychoanalysis: The Post-Cartesian Turn in Theory and Practice 441 Roger Frie Index 458
Jack Martin is Burnaby Mountain Professor of Psychology at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Canadian and American Psychological Associations, and a Past President of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. His most recent books include The Education of Selves: How Psychology Transformed Students (2013) and The Psychology of Personhood (2013). Jeff Sugarman is Professor of Education and Psychology at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Educational Research Association, and a Past President of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. He is the co-author of Persons: Understanding Psychological Selfhood and Agency (2010), Psychology and the Question of Agency (2003), and The Psychology of Human Possibility and Constraint (1999). Kathleen Slaney is Associate Professor in the History, Quantitative, and Theoretical Psychology area of the Department of Psychology at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She was awarded the Sigmund Koch Award for Early Career Contributions to Psychology from the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, and is co-editor of A Wittgensteinian Perspective on the Use of Conceptual Analysis in Psychology (2013).
Reviews for The Wiley Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology: Methods, Approaches, and New Directions for Social Sciences
This handbook not only proves that theorizing is still thriving in psychology, it also demonstrates the importance and the necessity of this work.............scholars in psychology will find in these pages things to inspire better thinking and improved inquiries into what it means to be human. (Choice Connect 2016)
