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Title

Heinz Werner and developmental science / edited by Jaan Valsiner.

Publication

New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [2005], ©2005.

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Additional Authors

Valsiner, Jaan.

Description

xi, 439 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Summary

"Heinz Werner (1890-1964) was one of the three key developmental psychologists of the 20th century - along with Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky. This book is a new exploration of Werner's ideas and their social contexts - in Vienna in his student years, in Hamburg up to 1933, followed by the years of transit as an immigrant to America at times of economic depression, and - finally, culminating in his establishment of the prominent "Clark tradition" in American psychology since the 1950s. The book offers an in-depth analysis of Werner's ideas - as they were originally formulated in Vienna and Hamburg, and how they were changed by North American influences. An analysis of the social-intellectual climate of the development of psychology in America in the 1950s is a special feature of this book that will further enhance an understanding of Werner's unique contribution." "This book will be of interest to developmental psychologists, sociologists and historians of science, philosophers, practitioners working in special education and neuropsychology, and for general readers interested in the history of ideas and life courses of scientists."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

PATH in psychology

Uniform Title

PATH in psychology.

Subjects

• Developmental psychology > History > 20th century
• Werner, Heinz, 1890-1964

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

General introduction : developmental science in the making : the role of Heinz Werner / Jaan Valsiner -- Basic life course : Heinz Werner -- Ch. 1. The context of the formation of Heinz Werner's ideas / Ulrich Muller -- Ch. 2. Heinz Werner and the psychological institute in Hamburg / Kurt Kreppner -- Ch. 3. The making of a developmental psychologist / Rene van der Veer -- Ch. 4. Metaphor and perception / Leonard Cirillo -- Ch. 5. Re-thinking development / Bernie Kaplan, Ingrid E. Josephs and Sunil Bhatia -- Ch. 6. The sensory-tonic field theory of perception / Seymour Wapner -- Ch. 7. The Clark years : creating a culture / Jennifer M. Lane, Mariola Magovcevic and Becca K. Solomon -- Ch. 8. Heinz Werner : mentor and mensch / Thomas B. Mulholland -- Ch. 9. Werner : orthogenesis as life style / Irving Hurwitz -- Ch. 10. Heinz Werner, my spiritual grandfather : a little giant with transparent blinders / Sandor Brent -- Ch. 11. Feeling for others : Werner's interpersonal style / Robert Baker -- Ch. 12. Personal experiences with Heinz Werner at Clark University / Arnold Miller -- Ch. 13. Werner recollected / Leonard Cirillo -- Ch. 14. Relating to Dr. Werner : past and present / Roger Bibace -- Ch. 15. The theory of phenomenal psychology / Louis Carini -- Ch. 16. Critical person-in-environment transitions across the life span / Seymour Wapner and Jack Demick -- Ch. 17. The primate phylogeny of cognitive ontogeny / Jonas Langer -- Ch. 18. Werner's developmental thought in the study of adult psychopathology / Marion Glick and Edward Zigler -- Ch. 19. Heinz Werner : catalyst for a new way of understanding and treating children on the autism spectrum / Arnold Miller -- General synthesis : recurring agendas : integration of developmental science / Jaan Valsiner.

ISBN

0306479095

LCCN

2004054838

OCLC

• ocm55738325
• SCSB-5151394

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries