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A Humanities Approach to the Psychology of Personhood book cover

1st Edition

A Humanities Approach to the Psychology of Personhood

Edited By Jeff Sugarman, Jack Martin Copyright 2020
132 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

132 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

132 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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In this set of insightful essays, the concept of the psychological humanities is defined and explored. A clear rationale is provided for its necessity in the study and understanding of the individual and identity in a discipline that is occupied largely by empirical studies that report aggregated data and its analysis. Contributors to this volume are leading scholars in theoretical... Read more

Foreword

Thomas Teo

1. Introduction to a Humanities Approach to the Psychology of Personhood

Jeff Sugarman and Jack Martin

2. The Message in the Medium: Knowing the Psychological through Art

Kathleen Slaney

3. Psychology as Literature: Narrative Knowing and the Project of the Psychological Humanities

Mark Freeman

4. Methods of Life Writing for a Psychology of Persons

Jack Martin

5. Personhood through the Lens of Radical-Transformative Agency

Anna Stetsenko

6. Historical Ontology Exemplifying a Psychological Humanities of Personhood

Jeff Sugarman

7. Challenges for a Psychological Humanities

Suzanne Kirschner

Index

Biography

Jeff Sugarman is Professor of Education and Psychology at Simon Fraser University. He is a past president of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, former associate editor of the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology and New Ideas in Psychology, and co-editor of The Wiley Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology.



Jack Martin is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Simon Fraser University. His interests are in the theory and history of psychology, social developmental psychology, educational psychology, and narrative, biographical psychology, with particular emphasis on the psychology of selfhood, human agency, and personhood, and the works of George Herbert Mead and Ernest Becker.

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