Critical Psychology
Critical Psychology
Contributions to an Historical Science of the Subject
Charles W. Tolman, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Wolfgang Maiers, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Wolfgang Maiers, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
April 1991
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Critical psychology constitutes a radical critique and reconstruction of scientific psychology from a dialectical and historical-materialistic point of view. Its aim is to provide a firmer foundation than presently exists for a psychology that is methodologically sound, practically relevant and theoretically determinate. This book was first published in 1991.
Reviews & endorsements
"...will prove to be provocative reading for psychologists interested in the social and historical construction of human consciousness." Harvard Educational Review
"This is a valuable English-language introduction to the basic concepts of Critical Psychology...." Philip Wexler, Theory and Psychology
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April 1991Hardback
9780521393447
284 pages
238 × 158 × 21 mm
0.518kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- 1. Critical psychology: an overview Charles W. Tolman
- 2. Critical psychology: historical background and task Wolfgang Maiers
- 3. Societal and individual life processes Klaus Holzkamp
- 4. Experience of self and scientific objectivity Klaus Holzkamp
- 5. Psychoanalysis and Marxist psychology Klaus Holzkamp
- 6. Emotion, cognition, and action potence Ute Holzkamp-Osterkamp
- 7. Action potence, education, and psychotherapy Ute Holzkamp-Osterkamp
- 8. Personality: self-actualization in social vacuums? Ute Holzkamp-Osterkamp
- 9. The concept of attitude Morus Markard
- 10. Client interests and possibilities in psychotherapy Ole Dreier
- 11. Play and Ontogenesis Karl-Heinz Brawn
- 12. Functions of the private sphere in social movements Frigga Haug
- Bibliography
- Index.
