The Psychology of Personhood

Philosophical, Historical, Social-Developmental, and Narrative Perspectives
Herausgeber: Martin, Jack; Bickhard, Mark H.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What is a person? Surprisingly little attention is given to this question in psychology. For much of the past century, psychology has tended to focus on the systematic study of processes rather than on the persons who enact and embody them. In contrast to the reductionist picture of much mainstream theorising, which construes persons as their mental lives, behaviours or neurophysiological particulars, The Psychology of Personhood presents persons as irreducibly embodied and socially situated beings. Placing the study of persons at the centre of psychology, this book presents novel insights on the typical, everyday actions and experiences of persons in relation to each other and to the broader society and culture. Leading scholars from diverse academic disciplines paint an integrative portrait of the psychological person within evolutionary, historical, cultural, developmental and everyday contexts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781107477759
• ISBN-10: 1107477751
• Artikelnr.: 41612036

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introducing persons and the psychology of personhood Jack Martin and
Mark H. Bickhard; Part I. Philosophical, Conceptual Perspectives: 2. The
person concept and the ontology of persons Michael A. Tissaw; 3. Achieving
personhood: the perspective of hermeneutic phenomenology Charles Guignon;
Part II. Historical Perspectives: 4. Historical psychology of persons:
categories and practice Kurt Danziger; 5. Persons and historical ontology
Jeff Sugarman; 6. Critical personalism: on its tenets, its historical
obscurity, and its future prospects James T. Lamiell; Part III.
Social-Developmental Perspectives: 7. Conceiving of self and others as
persons: evolution and development John Barresi, Chris Moore and Raymond
Martin; 8. Position exchange theory and personhood: moving between
positions and perspectives within physical, socio-cultural and
psychological space and time Jack Martin and Alex Gillespie; 9. The
emergent ontology of persons Mark H. Bickhard; 10. Theorizing personhood
for the world in transition and change: reflections from a transformative
activist stance on human development Anna Stetsenko; Part IV. Narrative
Perspectives: 11. Identity and narrative as root metaphors of personhood
Amia Lieblich and Ruthellen Josselson; 12. Storied persons: the double
triad of narrative identity Mark Freeman.