History of Psychology in Autobiography
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-0-387-88500-1 (ISBN)
This volume is not simply a collection of personal chronologies which might inspire or lend appreciation to a younger generation. Our contributors write from their personal and professional experience, of course, but they write of their thinking and understanding of the psycheas an aspect of human life, of psychology as an academic form of human sciences’ inquiry, and so bring to bear their scientific and philosophical imagination to their personal challenges in their chosen vocation as psychologists. Our contributors cover a broad swath of the second half of the 20th century, the century of psychology. Nurturing the discipline from within various philosophical, social-political, and cultural roots, their autobiographies exemplify marginality, if not alienation, from the mainstream, even as their professional and personal lives give expression to engaged scholarship, commitment to vocation and, straightforwardly and reflectively, a love of the heart.
From Germany, Carl Graumann, from France, Erika Apfelbaum, from Canada, David Bakan and Kurt Danziger, and from the United States, Amedeo Giorgi, Robert Rieber, and Joseph Rychlak, relate their lives to the larger contexts of our times. Their personal stories are an integral part of the historiography of our discipline. Indeed, a contribution to historiography of our discipline is constituted in their autobiographical self-presentations, for their writings attest as much to their lives as model inquirers as they do to the possibility of psychology as a human science.
Against the Tide: Making Waves and Breaking Silences.- Reflections On My Years in Psychology.- Confessions of a Marginal Psychologist.- Professional Marginalization in Psychology: Choice or Destiny?.- Psychology in Self-Presentations.- The Autobiography of a Marginal Psychologist: As Much as I Like Bob.- In Search and Proof of Human Beings, Not Machines.
From the reviews:
“Historians of psychology will of course want to read this … for the details of the contributors’ lives, but I want to reflect on an aspect of the theme of marginalization. … the authors represent a European-New York take on psychology, America, and the 20th century. … This particular History of Psychology in Autobiography reveals that institutional psychology reflects the political and social divisions of modern American culture.” (Thomas H. Leahey, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 54 (51), December, 2009)
Reihe/Serie | Path in Psychology |
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Zusatzinfo | IX, 245 p. |
Verlagsort | New York, NY |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Angst / Depression / Zwang | |
Naturwissenschaften | |
Schlagworte | Psychologie, Geschichte |
ISBN-10 | 0-387-88500-5 / 0387885005 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-387-88500-1 / 9780387885001 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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