1st Edition
Toward a Holistic Developmental Psychology
Originally published in 1983, the main aim of this volume was to suggest new ways of conceptualizing human development and new domains of theorizing and engaging in practice for those who were vitally concerned with the nature and value of human beings. Toward this goal, colleagues and students of the later Heinz Werner, believing that Werner provided the schema for such a vision, here present modifications, extensions, and elaborations of his insights concerning the nature of development. The Wernerian approach, in origin and aim, is concerned with the development of the whole human being. The papers here were intended only as a stimulus to provoke others as well as the contributors themselves to a new, yet old approach, to human experience, thought, and action. Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context.
Introduction. 1. Change in Structural Size and Change in Organizational Form: A Formal Model for the Relationship Between Growth and Development Sandor B. Brent 2. Piaget, Vygotsky and Werner Joseph A. Glick 3. Genetic-Dramatism: Old Wine in New Bottles Bernard Kaplan 4. A Developmental Approach to Systems Theory George Rand 5. Reflections on Culture and Personality from the Perspective of Genetic-Dramatism Bernard Kaplan 6. An Examination of Studies of Critical Transitions Through the Life Cycle S. Wapner, R.A. Ciottone, G.A. Hornstein, O.V. McNeill and A.M. Pacheco 7. Regression Revisited: Perceptuo-Cognitive Performance in the Aged Robert H. Pollack 8. Process and Achievenment Revisited Edith Kaplan 9. Some Aspects of a Development Analysis of Perception Ricardo B. Morant 10. The Aesthetic Mode of Consciousness Sybil S. Barten 11. Play as the Creation of Imaginary Situations: The Role of Language Margery B. Franklin 12. Concept and Symbol Formation by Infants Jonas Langer 13. Figurative Action from the Perspective of Genetic-Dramatism Leonard Cirillo and Bernard Kaplan. Epilogue. Author Index. Subject Index.
Biography
Seymour Wapner and Bernard Kaplan.
