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An Advanced Guide to Psychological Thinking - Critical and Historical Perspectives (Hardcover)
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An Advanced Guide to Psychological Thinking - Critical and Historical Perspectives (Hardcover)
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Psychology is a diverse assortment of fields with distinct
referents, often using the same terms, and it is not always easy to
identify its shared assumptions. At base, the academic variants
tend to include the notion that mental activity takes place in
hard-to-access inner spaces, making it more appropriate to study
behavioral manifestations of it, yet all of it can be represented
in an expert language with a confusing relationship to
physiological mechanisms. An Advanced Guide to Psychological
Thinking: Critical and Historical Perspectives focuses on several
key areas in psychology: learning, the brain, child development,
and psychotherapy, and identifies several conceptual tensions that
ground psychological understanding of various phenomena. These
include a tension between "inside" and "outside," structure and
function, higher and lower, and description and explanation; all
have historically generated confusion at the heart of the
discipline. As psychology was transformed into the study of
consciousness in the late nineteenth century, and the science of
behavior in the early twentieth, the disciplines of psychology
struggled to distinguish between what was properly inside and what
was outside mind, person, and organism as well as what forms the
study of these "insides" would take. Additionally, it was unclear
how to reconceive the traditional structures of the post-Cartesian
mind in the terms of evolutionary functionalism without losing
sight of the fact that the mind has its own organization or the
historical connection between mind and higher forms of being.
Psychology's influence today, particularly that of post-Freudian
therapeutics, has extended far beyond the university, creating a
therapeutic sensibility by which Westerners make sense of
themselves and their world. An Advanced Guide to Psychological
Thinking performs the vital task of helping psychology recognize
its own foundations.
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