Theoretical Psychology - Contemporary Readings

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.

VOLUME ONE: CONTEMPORARY THEORETICAL PSYCHOLOGY Introduction - Henderikus Stam PART ONE: THEORY, HISTORY AND CRITICAL THEORY Theoretical Psychology - Daniel Robinson What Is It and Who Needs It? Does the History of Psychology Have a Future? - Kurt Danziger The Psychology of Psychology - Graham Richards An Historically Grounded Sketch Some Psychological Theories Are Not Empirical - Geir Smedslund A Conceptual Analysis of the 'Stages of Change' Model Psychoanalytic Theory and Psychology - Ian Parker Conditions of Possibility for Clinical and Cultural Practice Remembering and Forgetting - Jens Brockmeier Narrative as Cultural Memory What to Say to a Skeptical Metaphysician - Don Ross and David Spurrett A Defense Manual for Cognitive and Behavioral Scientists Psychological Ascription - John Greenwood Commodity Fetishism and Repression - Michael Billig Reflections on Marx, Freud and the Psychology of Consumer Capitalism On Psychology, Ideology and Individuals' Societal Nature - Ute Osterkamp Is There (Still) a Place for Theory in Psychology? - Henderikus Stam PART TWO: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM The Social Constructionist Movement in Modern Psychology - Kenneth Gergen Discourse and Uncertainty - Mike Michael Postmodern Variations Constructionism, Personal Construct Psychology and Narrative Psychology - James Mancuso Recent Advances in Positioning Theory - Rom Harre et al In Conversation - John Shotter Joint Action, Shared Intentionality and Ethics PART THREE: FEMINISM Feminism and the Self - Morny Joy Feminism, Psychology and Matters of the Body - Betty Bayer and Kareen Malone PART FOUR HERMENEUTICS AND PHENOMENOLOGY Social Theory and Values - Frank Richardson and Robert Woolfolk A Hermeneutic Perspective The Psychology and Management of Pain - Robert Kugelmann Gate Control as Theory and Symbol VOLUME TWO: THEORY AND METHOD Psychology's Bridgman versus Bridgman's Bridgman - Sigmund Koch An Essay in Reconstruction Of Immortal Mythological Beasts - Christopher Green Operationism in Psychology Myths of Science - Mark Bickhard Misconceptions of Science in Contemporary Psychology Inductive Inference or Inductive Behavior - Peter Halpin and Henderikus Stam Fisher's and Neyman-Pearson's Approaches to Statistical Testing in Psychological Research (1940-1960) Normal Science, Pathological Science and Psychometrics - Joel Michell Arbitrary Methods in Psychology - Hart Blanton and James Jaccard Method and Theoretical Psychology - Lisa Osbeck Significance Tests Die Hard - Ruma Falk and Charles Greenbaum The Amazing Persistence of a Probabilistic Misconception Null Hypothesis Significance Testing - Joachim Krueger On the Survival of a Flawed Method Statistical Significance and Replicability - David Sohn Why the Former Does Not Presage the Latter When Experiments Serve Little Purpose - Michael Wallach and Lise Wallach Misguided Research in Mainstream Psychology Reporting Practices and APA Editorial Policies Regarding Statistical Significance and Effect Size - Tammi Vacha-Haase et al Experimental Practices in Economics - R. Hertwig and A. Ortmann A Methodological Challenge for Psychologists? Reflexivity and the Psychologist - Jill Morawski Causal and Functional Explanations - Huib Looren de Jong Toward a Richer View of the Scientific Method - A. Machado and F.J. Silva The Role of Conceptual Analysis Constructing Knowledge - L.D. Smith The Role of Graphs and Tables in Hard and Soft Psychology VOLUME THREE: COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, COGNITION, EMBODIED COGNITION, EVOLUTION A Teleological Critique of Modern Cognitivism - Joseph Rychlak The Rhetoric of Irrationality - Lola Lopes Recent Changes in the Concept of Cognition - Sacha Bem and Fred Keijzer 'Loving the Computer' - Elizabeth Wilson Cognition, Embodiment and the Influencing Machine Some Remarks on a Relational Concept of Mind - Huib Looren de Jong Consciousness According to James - Yanina Shapiro Forgetting, Disregarding and Other Selective Activities of Bodies-and-Brains Neuroscience and Theoretical Psychology - Peter Machamer and Justin Sytsma What's to Worry about? Model-Based Reasoning in Distributed Cognitive Systems - Nancy Nersessian Can There Be Such a Thing as Embodied Embedded Cognitive Neuroscience? - Jelle van Dijk et al Metamorphoses - Sarah Kember The Myth of Evolutionary Possibility Precis - Thomas Metzinger Being No One Consciousness, Accessibility and the Mesh between Psychology and Neuroscience - Ned Block Post-Cognitive Psychology - Jonathan Potter The Myth of Language Universals - Nicholas Evans and Stephen Levinson Language Diversity and Its Importance for Cognitive Science On What We Can See - Wes Sharrock and Jeff Coulter Home Heuristicus - Gerd Gigerenzer and Henry Brighton Why Biased Minds Make Better Inferences Against Integration - Maarten Derksen Why Evolution Cannot Unify the Social Sciences VOLUME FOUR: ALTERITY AND SOCIALITY, DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE, ABNORMAL AND PATHOLOGICAL THEORIES The Discursive Production of Selves - Rom Harre The Dialogical Self - Hubert Hermans, Harry Kempen and Rens van Loon Beyond Individualism and Rationalism Whose Right Is It to Define the Self? - Harwood Fisher The Place of the Psyche in a Constructed World - Kenneth Gergen Embodied Perception - Joshua Soffer Redefining the Social Clearing away the Self - A. Alexandra Michel and Stanton Wortham PART ONE: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Socializing Affordances - Alan Costall Displays and Fragments - Alan Radley Embodiment and the Configuration of Social Worlds The Poetics of Identity - Theodore Sarbin Using Common Psychological Terms to Describe Other People - Patrick Mollaret From Lexical Hypothesis to Polysemous Conception PART TWO: DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY How Shall I Name Thee? The Construction of Natural Selves - Susan Oyama Spielrein, Piaget and Vygotsky - Marie Santiago-Delefosse and J-M. Oderic Delefosse Three Positions on Child Thought and Language Toward a Wittgensteinian Social Psychology of Human Development - John Jost The Dynamics of Embodiment - Esther Thelen et al A Field Theory of Infant Preservative Reaching On the Persistence of the 'Problem of Other Minds' in Psychology - Ivan Leudar and Alan Costall Chomsky, Grice and Theory of Mind PART THREE : ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY Between Idealization and Denigration - Suzanne Kirschner Recent Revisionist Approaches to the History of Psychoanalysis Therapy as Theory and as Civics - Daniel Robinson 'Schizophrenic Person' or 'Person with Schizophrenia'? An Essay on Illness and the Self - Louis Sass From Meehl to Fast and Frugal Heuristics (and Back) - Konstantinos Katsikopoulos et al New Insights into How to Bridge the Clinical-Actuarial Divide The Unified Theory of Repression - Matthew Erdelyi Theorizing Health and Illness - Henderikus Stam Functionalism, Subjectivity and Reflexivity