Psychology, society, and subjectivity : an introduction to German critical psychology
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Psychology, society, and subjectivity : an introduction to German critical psychology
（Critical psychology）
Routledge, 1994
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-159) and indexes
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ISBN 9780415089753
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One result of the European student movements of the late 1960s was a critique of the mainstream, bourgeois social sciences. They were seen as irrelevant to the real needs of ordinary people and as practically and ideologically supporting oppression. The discussions around psychology in Berlin at the time became increasingly focused on whether the discipline could in fact be reformed. Among the latter was a group under the leadership of Klaus Holzkamp at the Free University who undertook an intensive critique of psychology with a view to identifying and correcting its theoretical and methodological problems and thus laying the groundwork for a genuine 'critical' psychology. Psychology, Society, and Subjectivity relates the history of this development, the nature of the group's critique, its reconstruction of psychology, and its implications for psychological thought and practice. It will be of interest to anyone keen on making psychology more relevant to our lives.
Table of Contents
Part I Dissent: 1. Ideology, Power and Subjectivity. Part II Critique: 2. Philosophical assumptions 3. Social-historical Theory 4. Specific Psychological Theories. Part III Reconstruction 5. Reconstructing the Psychological Categories 6. From Phylogenesis to the Dominance of Sociogenesis 7. Individual Subjectivity and its Development. Part IV Toward Practice: 8. Methodological Implications.
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: pbk ISBN 9780415089760
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Increasingly there have been more and more challenges to received notions of psychological thought and practice. No longer satisfied with old-fashioned positivist approaches, psychologists are following other social sciences in their critiques and methods.
Psychology, society and Subjectivity traces the history and development of German critical psychology. Its author, Charles Tolman, charts the initial dissent from mainstream psychology in the late 1960s, to the reconstruction of a psychology that is truly for people, not simply one about people.
Drawing on the work of leading figures such as Klaus Holzkamp, Psychology, Society and Subjectivity will need to be read by anyone keen to make psychology relevant without sacrificing its rigour.
Table of Contents
Part I Dissent: 1. Ideology, Power and Subjectivity. Part II Critique: 2. Philosophical assumptions 3. Social-historical Theory 4. Specific Psychological Theories. Part III Reconstruction 5. Reconstructing the Psychological Categories 6. From Phylogenesis to the Dominance of Sociogenesis 7. Individual Subjectivity and its Development. Part IV Toward Practice: 8. Methodological Implications.
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