Courageous Methods in Cultural Psychology

Meike Watzlawik is a Professor for Development & Culture at the Sigmund Freud University, Berlin, Germany. Before, she was a visiting professor at the University of Osnabrück, Germany, Department of Development & Culture (2011-2014). In addition to this 50% position, she was the CEO of a private career counseling institute in Bremen, Germany, working with adolescents and emerging adults (2010-2015). From 2008 to 2009, she was a visiting scholar (Feodor-Lynen Awardee of the Humboldt Foundation) at Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA. There, she supervised her own research project (identity development in traditional and non-traditional families) and became part of the international network of cultural psychologists initiated by Prof. Dr. Jaan Valsiner. She studied psychology at the Technical University Braunschweig (diploma). Doctoral degree 2003 (Lower Saxony Stipend), Habilitation 2008 (project funded by the German Research Foundation), both in the Department for Developmental and Differential Psychology (TU Braunschweig, mentor Prof. Dr. Werner Deutsch). She completed the basic training in Client-Centered Therapy and is certified career counselor (Triadic Counseling). She is part of the editorial board of Culture & Psychology. Examining different aspects of identity has been the focus of her research (e.g., sexual identity development of adolescence, the impact of sibling relationships/twinship on identity development, couple identity, occupational identity).
Ska Salden  has been since September 2016 research assistant in the research project "Diversity and (multiple) discrimination" at the SFU Berlin. Until 2014 they studied psychology with a focus on social psychology at the University of Würzburg, at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Salden worked in a learning therapy practice from 2014 to 2016.

Chapter 1. The Crooked Relationship Between Method and Matter.- Chapter 2. Reading Traces in Eels and Faces: Historical Roots of Semiotic Thinking in Psychology.- Chapter 3. Why We Have Two Ears: Particularized Meaning Beyond Language, or The Benefits of Musicalization in Research.- Chapter 4. Unfrozen: A Voice-Centered Listening Analysis of Self-Acceptance.- Chapter 5. Breaking Down Complex Realities: The Exploration of Children's Prosocial Actions Using Photographs.- Chapter 6. How Do People Make Meaning? A Methodological Dialogue between Social Anthropology and Developmental Psychology.- Chapter 7. Studying the stream of experience at memorial sites: The subjective camera methodology.- Chapter 8. Multimodal Interaction Analysis in Cultural Psychology research.- Chapter 9. Multisensory Ethnography as a Tool for Reconstructing Spatial Identities.- Chapter 10. "I had to google it": Toward an embodied pedagogy in psychology.- Chapter 11. Art as a Domain of Psychological Reality - Morphological Art Research and Art Coaching.- Chapter 12. Collaborative Realities.