1st Edition
Primer in Critical Personalism A Framework for Reviving Psychological Inquiry and for Grounding a Socio-Cultural Ethos
Part I. Rudimentary Considerations
1. On the Need to Revive Psychological Inquiry: The Historic Transformation of Empirical Psychology into Psycho-Demography
Introduction
2. Critical Personalism: Its Core Philosophical Tenets
3. The Challenge of Reviving Psychological Studies: Some Further Historical Perspective and Some Possibilities for Moving Forward
Part II. Toward A Critical Inter-Personalism in The Grounding of a Socio-Cultural Ethos
4. Echoes of William Stern's Socio-Cultural Voice
5. Some Critically Personalistic Observations on Current Discussions of Racism in American Society
The Impersonal Nature of Discourse About Personkinds
6. Toward a Broadened Perspective: Navigating Some Conceptual Obstacles to Critically Personalistic Thinking
Biography
James T. Lamiell is a Professor Emeritus in the Psychology Department at Georgetown University, USA. His scholarly interests are in the history and philosophy of psychology, the psychology of subjective personality judgments, and methodological issues pertaining to psychological research.
"Required reading for every psychologist. With the help of William Stern’s critical personalism, James Lamiell clearly explains the devasting methodological error at the heart of contemporary psychology and the way out of the quagmire in order to better understand persons and pressing social problems."
Brian Schiff, Esmond Nissim Professor of Psychology at The American University of Paris, France
