Morss, John R, Dr

Theoretical Issues in Psychology: Proceedings of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology 1999 Conference Morss, John R, Dr Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001 edition

Marc Notes: Conference proceedings.; Originally published: Boston, Mass.; London: Kluwer Academic, 2001.; This eighth volume of the proceedings of the biennial conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology continues the society's exploration of issues in the sciences of the mind. Covered topics include narrative studies, language and discourse, perspectives on cultural psychology, and identity and subjectivity. Table of Contents: Contributors. Preface. I: Embodied Experience. Creative Ways of Being; A. Game. And the Subject Was Made Flesh: The aesthetic and corporate dimensions of psychology's body; H. J. Stam. Plugged In: Psychology, technology and popular culture; B. M. Bayer. Technologies of Trans-Sexing: Discursive tension and resistance within psycho-medical and transgendered theorising of transsexual bodies; K. Roen. II: Social and Cultural Processes. Human Experience and the Enigma of Culture: Toward an enactive account of cultural practice; C. Baerveldt, et al. From Shared Representations to Consensually Coordinated Actions: Toward an intrinsically social psychology; T. Verheggen, C. Baerveldt. Cultural Psychology meets Evolutionary Psychology: Toward a new role for biology in the study of culture and experience; P. Voestermans, C. Baerveldt. The Tajfel Effect; S. D. Brown, P. Lunt. Discourse Analysis and Structural Supervision; A. Hofmeister. Forming Cultures Through Virtual Social Communities; C. Orthmann, L. Nacke. III: Perception, Cognition and Reasoning. Points of View and The Visual Arts: James Turrell, Antonio Damasio and the no-point-of-view phenomenon; C. Benson. Beyond Representationalism: A dynamical approach transcending symbolism in cognitive psychology; D. L. Rowe. The Dialectic of Critique, Theory and Method in Developing Feminist Research on Inference; R. J. Falmagne. Getting Rid of the Homunculus: A direct realist approach; T. McMullen. IV: Social Constructionism and Metatheoretical Issues. Logical Positivism and Gergen's Social Constructionism: No radical disjunction in twentieth century psychological metatheory; F. J. Hibberd. Wittgenstein and Social Constructionism: Methods ofsocial poetics' or knots in our thinking'? G. B. Sullivan. Epistemological Framings of Mysticism: Implications for contemporary western psychology; L. S. Jones. Idealization in Science: A methodological reflection; C. Peet. Stratification in Explanation; H. van Rappard. The Withering of Theory in Mainstream Social Psychology Journals: Whither our next theoretical turn? I. Lubek, et al. V: Subjectivity and Development. Being clichEd: Women's talk and feminine subjectivities; N. Stephenson. Individual Responsibility and Society: A subject science approach; U. Osterkamp. Models of the Life-Span for an Ageing Society; R. Leonard, A. Burns. Psychological Theorising in Transdisciplinary Perspective; W. Maiers. Reintegrating Sense into Subjectification; M. Hildebrand-Nilshon, et al. From Law to Lifestyle: Developmental' change in the Risk Society; J. R. Morss. Subjectivity and Subjectioning: Between determination and self-government; L. NAcke, E. Park. VI: Therapy and the Unconscious. Finding a Place to Stand: Reflections on discourse and intertextuality in counselling practice; D. ParE. The Influence of Psychotherapeutic Practices on a Hermeneutics of Discourse; A. Baydala. A Problem Aired: Radio therapeutic discourse and modes of subjection; I. Hodges. Psychology in the Twenty-First Century: Closing the gap between science and the symbol; A. Petocz. The Dynamic Unconscious Revisited: The role of motivation, affect, embodiment and intersubjectivity in catching ourselves unawares; D. McIlwain. Symbolism of the Tower as Abjection; I. Semetsky. Index."

Contributor Bio:  Stephenson, Niamh NIAMH STEPHENSON teaches Social Science, Social Theory and Public Health, and Qualitative Research Methods at the School of Public Health & Community Medicine, the University of New South Wales, Australia. DIMITRIS PAPADOPOULOS teaches Theory of the Social Sciences, Critical Psychology, and Social and Cultural Theory at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, and at the Department of Education and Psychology, Free University of Berlin, Germany.