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Naming the Mind

How Psychology Found Its Language
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In this work, the author explains how modern psychology found its language by examining the historically changing structure of psychological discourse; offering an analysis of the recent evolution of the concepts and categories on which the quality of psychological discourse depends; exp loring the process by which basic terms and concepts such as intelligence, motivation, learning, stimulation, behaviour and attitude have taken on their current meaning; and providing an history of the discipline of psychology.
Kurt Danziger is Professor Emeritus at York University, Toronto and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Constructing the Subject (1990) is his most recently published book.
Naming the Mind The Ancients The Great Transformation The Physiological Background Putting Intelligence on the Map Behaviour and Learning Motivation and Personality Attitudes Metalanguage The Technological Framework The Nature of Psychological Kinds
`I wish I had it in my power to make this book by Kurt Danziger required reading for any psychologist who teaches or contemplates teaching a course in the history of the field. Why? Because it eloquently challenges the current view that the category language of the 20th-century American psychology reflects a natural and universal order of psychological phenomena. In Naming the Mind: How Psychology Found Its Language, Danziger shows very convincingly what is wrong with that picture' -Theory & Psychology `Naming the Mind consolidates a vast body of scholarship on psychological language and offers a persuasive model for appreciating the dynamic play and implications of this expert language....For those researchers concerned with psychology's language, Naming the Mind is a smart read' - Feminism & Psychology
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