1st Edition
Values, Self and Society Toward a Humanist Social Psychology
By Mahlon Brewster Smith
Copyright 1991
310 Pages
by
Routledge
310 Pages
by
Routledge
310 Pages
by
Routledge
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In a tough opening statement, M. Brewster Smith outlines his own life course and contrasts it with the agenda of social psychology in the present professional moment. "Today's journals, textbooks, and conferences represent a vigorous but narrow scientific specialty in psychology, the practitioners of which are more closely focused on agendas that are primarily and often only intelligible within... Read more
I: Values and Selfhood; 1: Psychology and Values; 2: Perspectives on Selfhood; 3: Attitudes, Values, and Selfhood; 4: The Metaphorical Basis of Selfhood; II: Humanistic Psychology and Human Science; 5: Toward a Secular Humanistic Psychology; 6: Metapsychology, Politics, and Human Needs; 7: Encounter Groups and Humanistic Psychology; 8: Can There Be A Human Science?; 9: Psychology and the Decline of Positivism: The Case for a Human Science; 10: Beyond Aristotle and Galileo: Toward a Contextualized Psychology of Persons; III: Humanism and Social Issues; 11: Psychology in the Public Interest: What Have We Done? What Can We Do?; 12: McCarthyism: A Personal Account; 13: War, Peace, and Psychology; 14: Value Dilemmas and Public Health; 15: Hope and Despair: Keys to the Sociopsychodynamics of Youth; Epilogue: Social Psychology as Human Science
Biography
Mahlon Brewster Smith
