Theoretical Issues in Psychology

by International Society for Theoretical Psychology Conference 1999; Morss, John R.; Stephenson, Niamh

• ISBN13: 9780792373377
• ISBN10: 0792373375
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

This eighth volume of the proceedings of the biennial conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology continues the Society's exploration of issues in the sciences of the mind. Covered topics include narrative studies, language and discourse, perspectives on cultural psychology, identity and subjectivity, critical history and post-modern debates about constructivism vs. realism. In short, the papers included in this volume present a concise summation of the state of theoretical psychology.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Preface	xiii
I EMBODIED EXPERIENCE
Creative Ways of Being	3	(10)
Ann Game
And The Subject Was Made Flesh: The aesthetic and corporate dimensions of psychology's body	13	(10)
Henderikus J. Stam
Plugged In: Psychology, technology and popular culture	23	(12)
Betty M. Bayer
Technologies of Trans-Sexing: Discursive tension and resistance within psycho-medical and transgendered theorising of transsexual bodies	35	(14)
Katrina Roen
II SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PROCESSES
Human Experience and the Enigma of Culture: Toward an enactive account of cultural practice	49	(10)
Cor Baerveldt
Theo Verheggen
Paul Voestermans
From Shared Representations to Consensually Coordinated Actions: Toward an intrinsically social psychology	59	(10)
Theo Verheggen
Cor Baerveldt
Cultural Psychology meets Evolutionary Psychology: Toward a new role for biology in the study of culture and experience	69	(14)
Paul Voestermans
Cor Baerveldt
The Tajfel Effect	83	(12)
Steven D. Brown
Peter Lunt
Discourse Analysis and Structural Supervision	95	(10)
Arnd Hofmeister
Forming Cultures Through Virtual Social Communities	105	(14)
Claudia Orthmann
Lars Nacke
III PERCEPTION, COGNITION AND REASONING
Points of View and The Visual Arts: James Turrell, Antonio Damasio and the no-point-of-view phenomenon	119	(12)
Ciaran Benson
Beyond Representationalism: A dynamical approach transcending symbolism in cognitive psychology	131	(14)
Donald L. Rowe
The Dialectic of Critique, Theory and Method in Developing Feminist Research on Inference	145	(14)
Rachel Joffe Falmagne
Getting Rid of the Homunculus: A direct realist approach	159	(12)
Terence McMullen
IV SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM AND METATHEORETICAL ISSUES
Logical Positivism and Gergen's Social Constructionism: No radical disjunction in twentieth century psychological metatheory	171	(10)
Fiona J. Hibberd
Wittgenstein and Social Constructionism: Methods of ``social poetics'' or ``knots in our thinking''?	181	(14)
Gavin B. Sullivan
Epistemological Framings of Mysticism: Implications for contemporary western psychology	195	(12)
Lee Spark Jones
Idealization in Science: A methodological reflection	207	(12)
Christopher Peet
Stratification in Explanation	219	(8)
Hans van Rappard
The Withering of Theory in Mainstream Social Psychology Journals: Whither our next theoretical turn?	227	(14)
Ian Lubek
Mark Ferris
Angela Febbraro
Natasha Bauer
Brian Ross
Heather Thoms-Chesley
Sue Edmonds
Michael Andrews
V SUBJECTIVITY AND DEVELOPMENT
Being cliched: Women's talk and feminine subjectivities	241	(10)
Niamh Stephenson
Individual Responsibility and Society: A subject science approach	251	(14)
Ute Osterkamp
Models of the Life-Span for an Ageing Society	265	(10)
Rosemary Leonard
Ailsa Burns
Psychological Theorising in Transdisciplinary Perspective	275	(14)
Wolfgang Maiers
Reintegrating Sense into Subjectification	289	(12)
Martin Hildebrand-Nilshon
Johanna Motzkau
Dimitris Papadopoulos
From Law to Lifestyle: ``Developmental'' change in the Risk Society	301	(12)
John R. Morss
Subjectivity and Subjectioning: Between determination and self-government	313	(14)
Lars Nacke
Eri Park
VI THERAPY AND THE UNCONSCIOUS
Finding a Place to Stand: Reflections on discourse and intertextuality in counselling practice	327	(14)
David Pare
The Influence of Psychotherapeutic Practices on a Hermeneutics of Discourse	341	(10)
Angelina Baydala
A Problem Aired: Radio therapeutic discourse and modes of subjection	351	(16)
Ian Hodges
Psychology in the Twenty-First Century: Closing the gap between science and the symbol	367	(12)
Agnes Petocz
The Dynamic Unconscious Revisited: The role of motivation, affect, embodiment and intersubjectivity in catching ourselves unawares	379	(14)
Doris McIlwain
Symbolism of the Tower as Abjection	393	(16)
Inna Semetsky
Index	409