Theoretical Psychology - Contemporary Readings

VOLUME ONE: CONTEMPORARY THEORETICAL PSYCHOLOGY Introduction - Henderikus Stam PART ONE: THEORY, HISTORY AND CRITICAL THEORY Theoretical Psychology - Daniel Robinson What Is It and Who Needs It? Does the History of Psychology Have a Future? - Kurt Danziger The Psychology of Psychology - Graham Richards An Historically Grounded Sketch Some Psychological Theories Are Not Empirical - Geir Smedslund A Conceptual Analysis of the 'Stages of Change' Model Psychoanalytic Theory and Psychology - Ian Parker Conditions of Possibility for Clinical and Cultural Practice Remembering and Forgetting - Jens Brockmeier Narrative as Cultural Memory What to Say to a Skeptical Metaphysician - Don Ross and David Spurrett A Defense Manual for Cognitive and Behavioral Scientists Psychological Ascription - John Greenwood Commodity Fetishism and Repression - Michael Billig Reflections on Marx, Freud and the Psychology of Consumer Capitalism On Psychology, Ideology and Individuals' Societal Nature - Ute Osterkamp Is There (Still) a Place for Theory in Psychology? - Henderikus Stam PART TWO: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM The Social Constructionist Movement in Modern Psychology - Kenneth Gergen Discourse and Uncertainty - Mike Michael Postmodern Variations Constructionism, Personal Construct Psychology and Narrative Psychology - James Mancuso Recent Advances in Positioning Theory - Rom Harre et al In Conversation - John Shotter Joint Action, Shared Intentionality and Ethics PART THREE: FEMINISM Feminism and the Self - Morny Joy Feminism, Psychology and Matters of the Body - Betty Bayer and Kareen Malone PART FOUR HERMENEUTICS AND PHENOMENOLOGY Social Theory and Values - Frank Richardson and Robert Woolfolk A Hermeneutic Perspective The Psychology and Management of Pain - Robert Kugelmann Gate Control as Theory and Symbol VOLUME TWO: THEORY AND METHOD Psychology's Bridgman versus Bridgman's Bridgman - Sigmund Koch An Essay in Reconstruction Of Immortal Mythological Beasts - Christopher Green Operationism in Psychology Myths of Science - Mark Bickhard Misconceptions of Science in Contemporary Psychology Inductive Inference or Inductive Behavior - Peter Halpin and Henderikus Stam Fisher's and Neyman-Pearson's Approaches to Statistical Testing in Psychological Research (1940-1960) Normal Science, Pathological Science and Psychometrics - Joel Michell Arbitrary Methods in Psychology - Hart Blanton and James Jaccard Method and Theoretical Psychology - Lisa Osbeck Significance Tests Die Hard - Ruma Falk and Charles Greenbaum The Amazing Persistence of a Probabilistic Misconception Null Hypothesis Significance Testing - Joachim Krueger On the Survival of a Flawed Method Statistical Significance and Replicability - David Sohn Why the Former Does Not Presage the Latter When Experiments Serve Little Purpose - Michael Wallach and Lise Wallach Misguided Research in Mainstream Psychology Reporting Practices and APA Editorial Policies Regarding Statistical Significance and Effect Size - Tammi Vacha-Haase et al Experimental Practices in Economics - R. Hertwig and A. Ortmann A Methodological Challenge for Psychologists? Reflexivity and the Psychologist - Jill Morawski Causal and Functional Explanations - Huib Looren de Jong Toward a Richer View of the Scientific Method - A. Machado and F.J. Silva The Role of Conceptual Analysis Constructing Knowledge - L.D. Smith The Role of Graphs and Tables in Hard and Soft Psychology VOLUME THREE: COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, COGNITION, EMBODIED COGNITION, EVOLUTION A Teleological Critique of Modern Cognitivism - Joseph Rychlak The Rhetoric of Irrationality - Lola Lopes Recent Changes in the Concept of Cognition - Sacha Bem and Fred Keijzer 'Loving the Computer' - Elizabeth Wilson Cognition, Embodiment and the Influencing Machine Some Remarks on a Relational Concept of Mind - Huib Looren de Jong Consciousness According to James - Yanina Shapiro Forgetting, Disregarding and Other Selective Activities of Bodies-and-Brains Neuroscience and Theoretical Psychology - Peter Machamer and Justin Sytsma What's to Worry about? Model-Based Reasoning in Distributed Cognitive Systems - Nancy Nersessian Can There Be Such a Thing as Embodied Embedded Cognitive Neuroscience? - Jelle van Dijk et al Metamorphoses - Sarah Kember The Myth of Evolutionary Possibility Precis - Thomas Metzinger Being No One Consciousness, Accessibility and the Mesh between Psychology and Neuroscience - Ned Block Post-Cognitive Psychology - Jonathan Potter The Myth of Language Universals - Nicholas Evans and Stephen Levinson Language Diversity and Its Importance for Cognitive Science On What We Can See - Wes Sharrock and Jeff Coulter Home Heuristicus - Gerd Gigerenzer and Henry Brighton Why Biased Minds Make Better Inferences Against Integration - Maarten Derksen Why Evolution Cannot Unify the Social Sciences VOLUME FOUR: ALTERITY AND SOCIALITY, DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE, ABNORMAL AND PATHOLOGICAL THEORIES The Discursive Production of Selves - Rom Harre The Dialogical Self - Hubert Hermans, Harry Kempen and Rens van Loon Beyond Individualism and Rationalism Whose Right Is It to Define the Self? - Harwood Fisher The Place of the Psyche in a Constructed World - Kenneth Gergen Embodied Perception - Joshua Soffer Redefining the Social Clearing away the Self - A. Alexandra Michel and Stanton Wortham PART ONE: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Socializing Affordances - Alan Costall Displays and Fragments - Alan Radley Embodiment and the Configuration of Social Worlds The Poetics of Identity - Theodore Sarbin Using Common Psychological Terms to Describe Other People - Patrick Mollaret From Lexical Hypothesis to Polysemous Conception PART TWO: DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY How Shall I Name Thee? The Construction of Natural Selves - Susan Oyama Spielrein, Piaget and Vygotsky - Marie Santiago-Delefosse and J-M. Oderic Delefosse Three Positions on Child Thought and Language Toward a Wittgensteinian Social Psychology of Human Development - John Jost The Dynamics of Embodiment - Esther Thelen et al A Field Theory of Infant Preservative Reaching On the Persistence of the 'Problem of Other Minds' in Psychology - Ivan Leudar and Alan Costall Chomsky, Grice and Theory of Mind PART THREE : ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY Between Idealization and Denigration - Suzanne Kirschner Recent Revisionist Approaches to the History of Psychoanalysis Therapy as Theory and as Civics - Daniel Robinson 'Schizophrenic Person' or 'Person with Schizophrenia'? An Essay on Illness and the Self - Louis Sass From Meehl to Fast and Frugal Heuristics (and Back) - Konstantinos Katsikopoulos et al New Insights into How to Bridge the Clinical-Actuarial Divide The Unified Theory of Repression - Matthew Erdelyi Theorizing Health and Illness - Henderikus Stam Functionalism, Subjectivity and Reflexivity