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

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Introduction
Section I Alternative Conceptions of Psychology as a Discipline
	1 Minds, Brains, or Persons? What is Psychology About?
	2 Psychology’s Flawed Focus on Individuals and Individualism: A Strong Relationality Alternative
	3 The End of Disembodied Mind: Fleshing Out Psychology
	4 The Distorting Lens of Psychology’s Individualism and a Social Realist Alternative
	5 Should Psychology Care About Metaphysics?
	6 Philosophical Hermeneutics: Beyond Objectivism and Relativism in Psychology
	7 Carving the Joints: The Ontology and Epistemology of Natural Kinds in Psychology
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
	9 Striving for the Whole: Toward an Organismic Theory of Development
	10 Beyond Mechanism in Psychological Theories of Learning: A Hermeneutic Account of Embodied Familiarization
	11 Reductive Naturalism and Evolutionary Psychology’s Empty Ethics of Enhancement: A Phenomenological Alternative
	12 Psychology and the Significance of History
	13 Philosophical and Political Lessons from the Hoffman Report: Toward a Hermeneutic Re-Moralization of Psychology
Section III Alternative Conceptions of Self and Identity
	14 Who am I? Towards a Multi-Voiced Dialogical Self
	15 Racial Identity and Transnational Migration: Black-Canadian and Indian-American Diaspora Communities
	16 A Critical Interpretative Psychology of Gender
	17 Narrative Psychology and Beyond: Returning the Other to the Story of the Self
	18 Subjectivity
	19 Preserving Agency as a Human Phenomenon
Section IV Alternative Conceptions of Psychological Inquiry
	20 A Non-reductive “Person-based Ontology” for Psychological Inquiry
	21 Why Human Inquiry Is Different than Natural Science Inquiry
	22 The Participatory Perspective: Moving Beyond “Pro-World” Approaches to Theorizing in Psychology Without Adopting “Pro-Subject/Mind” Approaches
	23 Metaphors, Idioms, and Clichés: The Rhetoric of Objectivity in Psychological Science Discourse
	24 Existential Phenomenological Research: A “Human Science” Alternative for Psychology
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
	26 Subjectivity, Schizophrenia, and the Self: An Introduction to Phenomenological Psychopathology
	27 The Praxis of Theorizing in Psychology: From Traditional to Critical Perspectives
	28 Psychology’s Contribution to Radicalizing Aging Theory for a Participatory Democracy: Critical Reflective Praxis of Phenomenology as Enacted Activism
	29 Rethinking Marriage in a Post-Traditional Western World
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