1st Edition
Striving for the Whole Creating Theoretical Syntheses
Edited By Jaan Valsiner
Copyright 2008
263 Pages
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Routledge
266 Pages
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Routledge
263 Pages
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Routledge
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This unusual collection explores the development of ideas in psychology's past, and shapes them into a valuable resource for ideas in the discipline's future, with particular emphasis on holistic traditions in psychology. Diriwochter and Valsiner focus on developmental holistic psychology as advocated by the second school of Leipzig in Germany. Although largely neglected, this school of thought... Read more
Preface The Past and Future of the Whole, Chapter 1 Leibniz’s Dynamic Holism, Chapter 2 Christian von Ehrenfels, Chapter 3 Genetic Ganzheitspsychologie, Chapter 4 Felix Krueger and Ganzheitspsychologie: History of Psychology in Japan before and during World War II, Chapter 5 Ganzheitspsychologie in Heidelberg, Chapter 6 Jan Smuts and Personality Theory: The Problem of Holism in Psychology, Chapter 7 Janet’s Emotions in the Whole of Human Conduct, Chapter 8 Ernst E. Boesch’s Holistic Cultural Psychology, Chapter 9 Comparative Methodology as the Human Condition: Conwy Lloyd Morgan and the Use of Animal Models in Science, Chapter 10 Other Minds Than Ours, Chapter 11 A Holistic Perspective in Natural Sciences, Chapter 12 Dynamic Adaptive Psychology: Viewing the Individual through the Lens of Evolution and Development, Conclusion Returning to the Whole—A New Theoretical Synthesis in the Social Sciences, About the Contributors, Index
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Jaan Valsiner
