At its core, psychology is about persons: their thinking, their
problems, the improvement of their lives. The understanding of
persons is crucial to the discipline. But according to this
provocative new book, between current essentialist theories that
rely on biological models, and constructionist approaches based on
sociocultural experience, the concept of the person has all but
vanished from psychology.
Persons: Understanding Psychological Selfhood and Agency recasts
theories of mind, behavior, and self, synthesizing a range of
psychologists and philosophers to restore the centrality of
personhood-especially the ability to make choices and decisions-to
the discipline. The authors' unique perspective de-emphasizes
method and formula in favor of moral agency and life experience,
reveals frequently overlooked contributions of psychology to the
study of individuals and groups, and traces traditions of selfhood
and personhood theory, including: The pre-psychological history of
personhood, a developmental theory of situated, agentive
personhood, the political disposition of self as a kind of
understanding, Human agency as a condition of personhood,
Emergentist theories in psychology, the development of the
perspectival self.
Persons represents an intriguing new path in the study of the
human condition in our globalizing world. Researchers in
developmental, social, and clinical psychology as well as social
science philosophers will find in these pages profound implications
not only for psychology but also for education, politics, and
ethics.
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