View All Book Series

BOOK SERIES


Advances in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology


About the Series

The founders of psychology — thinkers such as Wundt, Freud, and Spencer — recognized the importance of psychologists formulating for themselves the conceptual foundations of the discipline. These parents of psychology not only did their own theorizing, in cooperation with many others; they realized the significance of constantly re-examining these theories and philosophies, including the theories and philosophies of psychology’s methods.

The Advances in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology series is dedicated to this examining and re-examining. It identifies the pivotal and problematic non-empirical issues that face the discipline and addresses these issues in the tradition of the theorists of natural science — uncovering the implicit concepts and hidden assumptions of programs of research and strategies of practice to compare them to concepts and assumptions that might be better.

To learn more about the series or to propose a title, please contact Brent Slife ([email protected]) and Zoe Thomson ([email protected]).

24 Series Titles

Per Page
Sort

Display
Studies of Life Positioning A New Sociocultural Approach to Psychobiography

Studies of Life Positioning: A New Sociocultural Approach to Psychobiography

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Jack Martin
June 21, 2024

This book illustrates how Life Positioning Analysis can be used as a theoretical and methodological approach to sociocultural psychobiography. Life positioning psychobiography studies lives as they unfold within a world of interactivity. It recognizes and portrays us as social beings embedded and ...

Primer in Critical Personalism A Framework for Reviving Psychological Inquiry  and for Grounding a Socio-Cultural Ethos

Primer in Critical Personalism: A Framework for Reviving Psychological Inquiry and for Grounding a Socio-Cultural Ethos

1st Edition

By James T. Lamiell
February 01, 2024

This insightful book offers contemporary psychologists and other social theorists an understanding of the comprehensive system of thought developed by the German scholar William Stern (1871–1938) known as critical personalism. Expanding the author’s ongoing efforts in this area, the book considers,...

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Embodiment Understanding Human Being

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Embodiment: Understanding Human Being

1st Edition

By Nancy K Dess
January 29, 2024

This is a collection of pithy and accessible essays on the nature and implications of human embodiment which explore the concept of ‘human being’ in the most unprecedented manner through seemingly disparate academic disciplines. With contributions from key researchers from around the world, this ...

From Scientific Psychology to the Study of Persons A Psychologist’s Memoir

From Scientific Psychology to the Study of Persons: A Psychologist’s Memoir

1st Edition

By Jack Martin
January 29, 2024

This is a critical, personalized approach to reframing the discipline of psychology through a singular narrative in the form of a memoir written by a successful research psychologist. In this book we follow Martin’s unique career, which has allowed him to understand and adopt different ...

Problematic Research Practices and Inertia in Scientific Psychology History, Sources, and Recommended Solutions

Problematic Research Practices and Inertia in Scientific Psychology: History, Sources, and Recommended Solutions

1st Edition

Edited By James Lamiell, Kathleen Slaney
January 29, 2024

This volume explores the abiding intellectual inertia in scientific psychology in relation to the discipline’s engagement with problematic beliefs and assumptions underlying mainstream research practices, despite repeated critical analyses which reveal the weaknesses, and in some cases complete ...

Toward the Psychological Humanities A Modest Manifesto for the Future of Psychology

Toward the Psychological Humanities: A Modest Manifesto for the Future of Psychology

1st Edition

By Mark Freeman
July 05, 2023

Mark Freeman’s inspiring account of the burgeoning field of the psychological humanities presents a clear and compelling vision of what the discipline of psychology might become. Valuable though the scientific perspective has been for advancing the discipline, Freeman maintains that significant ...

Posttraumatic Joy A Seminar on Nietzsche’s Tragicomic Philosophy of Life

Posttraumatic Joy: A Seminar on Nietzsche’s Tragicomic Philosophy of Life

1st Edition

By Matthew Clemente, Andrew J. Zeppa
April 24, 2023

Posttraumatic Joy presents the major themes and ideas of Nietzsche’s corpus from a continental and psychoanalytic perspective with a particular bent toward how they might illuminate ways of coping with and living beyond trauma and suffering. Through a series of transcribed and edited ...

Suffering and Psychology

Suffering and Psychology

1st Edition

By Frank C. Richardson
April 03, 2023

Suffering and Psychology challenges modern psychology's concentration almost exclusively on eradicating pain, suffering, and their causes. Modern psychology and psychotherapy are motivated in part by a humane and compassionate desire to relieve many kinds of human suffering. However, they have ...

A Psychological Perspective on Folk Moral Objectivism

A Psychological Perspective on Folk Moral Objectivism

1st Edition

By Jennifer Cole Wright
December 30, 2022

A Psychological Perspective on Folk Moral Objectivism is a thoroughly researched interdisciplinary exploration of the critical role metaethical beliefs play in the way morality functions. Whether people are "moral objectivists" or not is something that deserves much more empirical attention than it...

A Philosophical Perspective on Folk Moral Objectivism

A Philosophical Perspective on Folk Moral Objectivism

1st Edition

By Thomas Pölzler
December 16, 2022

Philosophers have long debated whether morality is objective. But how do lay people think about this matter? A Philosophical Perspective on Folk Moral Objectivism discusses the philosophical aspects of this question in an accessible, integrated and coherent way. The first part argues that many ...

A Humane Vision of Clinical Psychology, Volume 1 The Theoretical Basis for a Compassionate Psychotherapy

A Humane Vision of Clinical Psychology, Volume 1: The Theoretical Basis for a Compassionate Psychotherapy

1st Edition

By Robert A. Graceffo
September 09, 2022

The primary purpose of psychotherapy is to improve a patient’s subjective experience. A Humane Vision of Clinical Psychology, Volume I shows readers what this might really mean, how it can be achieved, and where prevailing views go wrong in achieving it. It lays out an alternative idea of human ...

A Humane Vision of Clinical Psychology, Volume 2 Explorations into the Practice of Compassionate Psychotherapy

A Humane Vision of Clinical Psychology, Volume 2: Explorations into the Practice of Compassionate Psychotherapy

1st Edition

By Robert A. Graceffo
August 30, 2022

The purpose of A Humane Vision of Clinical Psychology, Volume II, is to encourage clinical and personal reflection on the part of reading clinicians, so as to foster more thought about the meaning and complexities of the therapeutic encounter. It does so by offering three clinical examples and a ...

1-12 of 24
AJAX loader