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The Analysis of Psychological Theory: Metapsychological Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

The Analysis of Psychological Theory Metapsychological Perspectives

Edited By Henderikus J. Stam, Timothy B. Rogers, Kenneth J. Gergen Copyright 1987
340 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1987 and reissued here with a new preface, The Analysis of Psychological Theory: Metapsychological Perspectives called attention to critical problems in psychology at the time and did so in a way that gave metapsychology a specialized identity and function. The Introduction discusses several major themes with which metapsychological works had been concerned in the... Read more

New Preface.  Contributors.  Preface.  Introduction: Toward Metapsychology Kenneth J. Gergen  Part 1: The Study of Metatheory  1. Lagging Behind the Papacy: Whither Psychology’s Aggiornamento? Morris L. Shames  2. A Critical Constructionist View of Psychology and Personhood Edward E. Sampson  3. The Consumption of Psychological Knowledge Warren Thorngate and Louise Plouffe  4. An Appeal for Objectivism in Psychological Metatheory James Foster  Part 2: Studies in Metatheory  5. The Language of Psychological Understanding Kenneth J. Gergen  6. The Psychology of Control: A Textual Critique Henderikus J. Stam  7. After Reflection: Psychologists’ Uses of History J. G. Morawski  8. Transition, Revolution, and Metapsychology: A Theoretic Proposal for the Developments of Criticism in Social Psychology Robert A. Boudreau  9. Hearing the “Un-Saids:” An Essay on the Role of Folkloristics in Metapsychology T. B. Rogers  10. Dialectical Materialism as Psychological Metatheory Charles Tolman  Part 3: Metatheoretical Applications  11. After Social Psychology Philip Wexler  12. Social Psychology in the Soviet Union Lloyd H. Strickland  13. Toward a Diachronic Social Psychology: Pointing with More than One Finger Mary M. Gergen  14. Artificial Intelligence: What, If Anything, Can Machines Teach Us About Human Psychology? Robert G. Weyant  15. Establishing Applied Social Psychology: An Exercise in Pragmatic Transcendence Ronald J. Fisher.  Index.

Biography

Henderikus J. Stam

Timothy B. Rogers

Kenneth J. Gergen

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