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Psychology without Foundations Steven Brown

Psychology without Foundations By Steven Brown

Psychology without Foundations by Steven Brown

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Social psychology has been deemed a discipline in crisis. This book proposes a way out of the crisis by letting go of the idea that psychology needs new foundations or a new identity, whether biological, discursive or cognitive.

Psychology without Foundations Summary

Psychology without Foundations: History, Philosophy and Psychosocial Theory by Steven Brown

For many years, for many people social psychology has been deemed a discipline in crisis.

This new book proposes a way out of the crisis by letting go of the idea that psychology needs new foundations or a new identity, whether biological, discursive or cognitive. The psychological is not narrowly confined to any one aspect of human experience; it is quite literally everywhere.

The book proposes a strong process-oriented approach to the psychological, which studies events or occasions. Aspects of experience such as communication or embodiment are treated as thoroughly mediated - the product of multiple intersecting relationships between the biological, the psychic and the social. The outcome is an image of a mobile, reflexively founded discipline which follows the psychological wherever it takes us, from the depths of embodiment to the complexities of modern global politics.

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`On the showing of this book, Critical Psychology (for want of a better label) has a long way to run, and a lot of work to do yet. It may well become required reading, so get in early - but expect some mind-stretching and moments of bewilderment. Oh - and recommend it to undergraduate students too; tell them how accessible it is - and run. They'll thank you when writing up their doctorates' - History and Philosophy of Psychology

About Steven Brown

Paul Stenner is Professor of Social Psychology at The Open University, UK. He completed his PhD at the University of Reading, UK, and has held posts at the University of Brighton, University College London, University of Bath, and the University of East London. He works with process approaches to psychosocial issues. He has published work in numerous fields including the emotions, human rights, quality of life, and active ageing. With Simon Watts, he is the author of Doing Q Methodological Research: Theory, Method and Interpretation (SAGE, 2012). He has published 25 peer-reviewed articles using, or about, Q methodology and numerous book chapters, including Q methodology (Stenner, Watts, & Worrell, 2017) and The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology, Second Edition (Willig & Stainton Rogers, Eds., 2017).

Table of Contents

The First Word Or In the Beginning Is the Middle Whitehead and Process Serres and Mediation Luhmann and Communication Artaud and Embodiment Spinoza and Affect Bergson and Memory Foucault and Subjectivity Deleuze and Life On Losing Your Foundations and Finding Them Again

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GOR013581240
9780761972273
0761972277
Psychology without Foundations: History, Philosophy and Psychosocial Theory by Steven Brown
Steven Brown
Used - Like New
Paperback
SAGE Publications Inc
2009-08-03
248
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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