1st Edition

Turning Psychology into Social Contextual Analysis

By Bernard Guerin Copyright 2021
174 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This groundbreaking book shows how we can build a better understanding of people by merging psychology with the social sciences. It is part of a trilogy that offers a new way of doing psychology focusing on people’s social and societal environments as determining their behaviour, rather than internal and individualistic attributions. Putting the ‘social’ properly back into psychology,... Read more

1. Where psychology went wrong 60 years ago: An erroneous turn at the fork in the Gestalt road  2. Going back to the ‘fork in the road’ and starting a fresh contextual approach  3. "Language is a socially transitive verb": Huh?  4. How can thinking possibly originate in our environments?  5. Contextualizing perception: Continuous micro responses focus-engaging with the changing effects of fractal-like environments?  6. Contextualizing emotions: When words fail us  7. The perils of using language in everyday life: The dark side of discourse and thinking  8. Weaning yourself off cognitive models

Biography

Bernard Guerin has worked in both Australia and New Zealand researching and teaching to merge psychology with the social sciences. His main research now focuses on contextualizing ‘mental health’ behaviours, working with Indigenous communities, and exploring social contextual analyses especially for language use and thinking.