Part of the ""History of Psychology in Autobiography"" series, this book takes personal and intellectual journeys of nine eminent people whose research has psychology into the 21st century.
One of the founders of humanistic psychology, Abraham Maslow, developed theories on human behaviour and motivation that have had a major impact on the public consciousness. His theories shaped not only psychology but many other fields, including counselling, education and management. At the time of his death 25 years ago, Maslow left a vast ......
This work brings together the range of theoretical issues which underpin social psychology together with social experience. Topics focused on include: "psychology and science"; descriptive and social theories; and the social and political uses and abuses of social psychology. The student is also introduced to the questions surrounding social ......
This book charts a clear and accessible path through some of the key debates in contemporary psychology. Drawing upon the wider critical and discursive turn in the human sciences, Social Constructionism, Discourse and Realism explores comprehensively the many claims about what we can know of `reality' in social constructionist and discursive ......
The Interpreted World, Second Edition, is a welcome introduction to phenomenological psychology, an area of psychology which has its roots in notoriously difficult philosophical literature. Writing in a highly accessible, jargon-free style, Ernesto Spinelli traces the philosophical origins of phenomenological theory and presents phenomenological perspectives on central topics in psychology - perception, social cognition and the self. A new chapter on phenomenological research has also been added. The Interpreted World, Second Edition demystifies an exciting branch of psychology, making its insights available to all students of psychology, psychotherapy and counselling.
Edward Hoffman, the well-known biographer of psychologist Abraham Maslow, assembles in this volume the m ost significant of the vast collection of articles, essays a nd letters intended for publication by Maslow, who died in 1 971. '
Bringing together leading scholars and investigators, the Handbook presents the influential theories and research findings that collectively are helping to define the emerging field of experimental existential psychology.
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.
