About Psychology

by Hill, Darryl B.; Kral, Michael J.

• ISBN13: 9780791457030
• ISBN10: 0791457036
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Demonstrating how psychologists use theory, philosophy, and history to illuminate the subjects they study, this book explores both the obstacles and benefits of integrating these perspectives into contemporary Western psychology. It offers a timely survey of current ideas at the crossroads of these disciplines and represents new ideas about how psychology can respond to changes on what it means to be human and on how to further this knowledge. This book presents contemporary thinking by noted scholars who have made significant contributions to a re-visioning of psychology.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Chapter One	1	(18)
Convergence and Conjunction at the Crossroads
Darryl B. Hill and Michael J. Kral
Chapter Two	19	(16)
Where History, Theory, and Philosophy Meet: The Biography of Psychological Objects
Kurt Danziger
Chapter Three	35	(20)
The Moral Dimension of Psychological Practice, Theory, and Subject Matter
Charles W. Tolman
Chapter Four	55	(18)
Psychotherapists As Crypto-Missionaries: An Exemplar on the Crossroads of History, Theory, and Philosophy
Brent D. Slife, Amy Fisher Smith, and Colin M. Burchfield
Chapter Five	73	(16)
A Theory of Personhood for Psychology
Jack Martin and Jeff Sugarman
Chapter Six	89	(20)
Self-Esteem and the Demoralized Self A Geneaology of Self Research and Measurement
Scott Greer
Chapter Seven	109	(18)
Cultural Turns in Psychology
Karen M. Seeley
Chapter Eight	127	(20)
Feminists Rethink Gender
Meredith M. Kimball
Chapter Nine	147	(18)
Retrieving the Past for the Future: Boundary Maintenance in Historical and Theoretical Psychology
Henderikus J. Star
Contributors	165	(4)
Index	169