The Sage Handbook of Theoretical Psychology

Auteur
Henderikus Stam is Professor of Psychology at the University of Calgary. He is the founding and current editor of the journal Theory and Psychology and is a former President of Division 24 (Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology) of the American Psychological Association as well as a former President of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology. He has published widely and his research focuses mainly on the history of psychology and the theoretical foundations of psychology.

Contenu

Introduction to Part 1
FOUNDATIONAL POSITIONS
Neuroscience and psychology
Cognitive Psychology: Information, representation and intentionality
Evolutionary psychology
Cognitive psychology: Extended Mind
Mental causation, related to agency, responsibility
Cultural Psychology
Embodied, embedded cognition
THEORETICAL TOOLS AND APPROACHES
Levels of explanation
Theories of explanation and models
The problem of measurement in psychology
Realism in psychology
Causality in psychology: The hidden-variable model and alternatives?
Embodiment, Culture and the Humanities
Historical foundations of theory in psychology
Mechanistic explanation in psychology
Disorders of decision making
SOCIO-CULTURAL & CRITICAL ORIENTATIONS TO PSYCHOLOGY
Narrative Psychology
Activity theory
Culture, self & globalization
Psychology of Morality
Dialogism and Bakhtin
Wittgenstein and psychology
Critical Psychology
Feminist Psychology
Lacan and Psychology
Gibsonian or ecological psychology
German Kritische Psychologie
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THEORY
Technology and psychology
Reflexivity
Heuristics - the theory
Theories of psychopathology
Psychoanalysis and Psychology
Theory of relational psychology
The future of the theory of mind
Embodiment
Affect