Routledge International Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology : Critiques, Problems, and Alternatives to Psychological Ideas (Hardcover)

Introduction Brent D. Slife, Stephen C. Yanchar, & Frank C. Richardson Section I. Alternative Conceptions of Psychology as a Discipline 1. Minds, Brains, or Persons? What is Psychology About? Svend Brinkmann 2. Psychology’s Flawed Focus on Individuals and Individualism: A Strong Relationality Alternative Jeffrey S. Reber and Brent D. Slife　 3. The End of Disembodied Mind: Fleshing Out Psychology Nancy K. Dess 4. The Distorting Lens of Psychology’s Individualism and a Social Realist Alternative Blaine J. Fowers, Lukas F. Novak, Alexander J. Calder and Robert K. Sommer 5. Should Psychology Care About Metaphysics? Mark H. Bickhard 6. Philosophical Hermeneutics: Beyond Objectivism and Relativism in Psychology Frank C. Richardson 7. Carving the Joints: The Ontology and Epistemology of Natural Kinds in Psychology James M. Nelson Section II. Alternative Conceptions of Fields Within Psychology: Positive Psychology, Development, Learning, Evolutionary Psychology, History, and Ethics 8. A Social Constructionist Critique of Positive Psychology Vivian Burr and Penny Dick 9. Striving for the Whole Toward an Organismic Theory of Development Brady Wagoner 10. Beyond Mechanism in Psychological Theories of Learning: A Hermeneutic Account of Embodied Familiarization Stephen C. Yanchar and Stephen W. Francis 11. Reductive Naturalism and Evolutionary Psychology’s Empty Ethics of Enhancement: A Phenomenological Alternative Edwin E. Gantt, Jared C. Parker and Kiara M. Aguirre 12. Psychology and the Significance of History Jeff Sugarman 13. Philosophical & Political Lessons from the Hoffman Report: Toward a Hermeneutic Re-Moralization of Psychology Philip Cushman Section III. Alternative Conceptions of Self and Identity 14. Who am I? Towards a Multi-Voiced Dialogical Self Hubert J. M. Hermans 15. Racial Identity and Transnational Migration: Black-Canadian and Indian-American Diaspora Sunil Bhatia and Rashelle Litchmore 16. A Critical Interpretative Psychology of Gender Eva Magnusson and Jeanne Marecek　 17. Narrative Psychology and Beyond: Returning the Other to the Story of the Self Mark P. Freeman 18. Subjectivity Suzanne R. Kirschner 19. Preserving Agency as a Human Phenomenon Richard N. Williams and Edwin E. Gantt Section IV. Alternative Conceptions of Psychological Inquiry 20. A Nonreductive "Person-based Ontology" for Psychological Inquiry Jack Martin 21. Why Human Inquiry Is Different than Natural Science Inquiry Robert C. Bishop 22. The Participatory Perspective: Moving Beyond "Pro-World" Approaches to Theorizing in Psychology Without Adopting "Pro-Subject/Mind" Approaches Michael A. Westerman 23. Metaphors, Idioms, and Cliches: The Rhetoric of Objectivity in Psychological Science Discourse Kathleen L. Slaney and Charlie A. Wu 24. Existential Phenomenological Research: A "Human Science" Alternative for Psychology Scott D. Churchill Amy M. Fisher Smith Section V. Alternative Conceptions of Psychological Practices: Psychotherapy, Abnormality, Theorizing, Aging, and Marriage 25. The Virtue of Virtue for Psychotherapy: Contextualizing and Situating the Conversation David M. Goodman, Steven J. Sandage, David Rupert, Michael Mookie C. Manalili, Jesse Owen, Todd Farchione and Mary C. Zanarini 26. Subjectivity, Schizophrenia, and the Self: An Introduction to Phenomenological Psychopathology Louis A. Sass 27. The Praxis of Theorizing in Psychology: From Traditional to Critical Perspectives Thomas Teo 28. Radicalizing Aging Theory in a Participatory Democracy: Critical Reflective Praxis of Phenomenology as Enacted Activism Mary Beth Quananta Morrissey, Anne Zimmerman and Cathy Lively 29. Rethinking Marriage in a Post-Traditional Western World Steve W. Kinney