Research Catalog

Title

The qualitative vision for psychology : an invitation to a human science approach / edited by Constance T. Fischer, Leswin Laubscher & Roger Brooke.

Publication

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : Duquesne University Press, [2016]

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Additional Authors

• Brooke, Roger, 1953-
• Fischer, Constance T., 1938-
• Laubscher, Leswin,

Description

vi, 362 pages; 23 cm

Summary

• " This volume, edited by three leading proponents and practitioners of human science psychology, serves as an invitation to readers new to this approach while also renewing that invitation to those who have long embraced and advanced research in the field from this perspective. It is a timely and important invitation. In 2009, the American Psychological Association declared psychology to be a core STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) discipline and advocated the teaching and practice of psychology with this natural science understanding in mind, but in 2014 further reaffirmed alternative methods by adding a new journal, Qualitative Psychology.^
• "Arguing that a purely STEM-centered approach to psychology is inadequate for understanding the experience of being human, these essays acknowledge psychology's roots in phenomenology, existentialism, and hermeneutics, while discussing issues as diverse as empathy, cultural history, apartheid, sexual assault, fetishes, and our natural environment"--
• The varied essays in this volume, certainly, bolster the view that a purely STEM-centered vision would ignore much about the very experience of being human.In fact, it would be dangerous to rely solely on the methods of the natural sciences to study human beings, who operate in the realm of meanings, lived experience, and complex and complicated relationships with self and others. We create societies and belief systems, orient ourselves in time, experience beauty and pain. The Qualitative Vision for Psychology: An Invitation to a Human Science Approach argues that because we have aspects that are distinctly and uniquely human -- we are not rats, hydrogen, or rocks, for example --^
• this necessitates a distinctly human science, one that regards persons as humans rather than objects of study. The laws and formulas of the natural sciences simply do not take into account that particularly human way of being in the world.There are few comprehensive books on psychology conceived as a human science, even though it has a long history with roots in phenomenology, existentialism, psychoanalysis, humanistic psychology, and hermeneutics. In recent years, as these essays discuss, the field has been transformed through its contact with feminism, critical historical analysis, and deconstruction, and it has continued to examine new challenges. Further, we see here its specific applicability to issues as diverse as empathy, cultural history, apartheid, sexual assault, fetishes, and our natural environment. "--

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Humanism
• PSYCHOLOGY / Research & Methodology
• Phenomenological psychology
• Phenomenological psychology
• Psychology > Methodology
• Qualitative research
• Qualitative research

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : invitation to psychology as a human science / Leswin Laubscher -- Some common themes of psychology as a human science / Roger Brooke -- Explanation versus understanding in psychology : a human science approach / Edwin E. Gantt and Richard N. Williams -- Aloneness is not the last word : a dialogal phenomenological study of deep connection / Kate Guts, Steen Halling, Adam R. Pierce, Elisabeth Romatz, and Jennifer Schulz -- Probing between : reflexive-relational approaches to human science research / Linda Finlay -- Resonating with meaning in the lives of others : an invitation to empathic understanding / Scott D. Churchill -- Evidence, argument and phenomenology / Russell Walsh -- Qualitative research as cultural historical ontology / Martin J. Packer and Silvia Tibaduiza Sierra -- Phenomenology as a method for indigenous psychology / Wei-Lun Lee -- Stuck in an image : apartheid's corps morcele / Derek Hook -- Recontextualizing military sexual assault : a feminist human science and social ecological approach / Jessica Payton -- Ecopsychology by way of phenomenology / Will W. Adams -- The convergence of Freud's psychoanalysis and Husserl's phenomenology : a research approach for human phenomena / Frederick J. Wertz and Charles M. Olbert -- The case of the lost piglets : a Merleau-Pontean analysis of the imaginary, symbolism, and language in trauma play / Eva-Maria Simms -- The foot fetish : events, reversals, and language in the collaborative assessment process / Heather Macdonald -- Lacanian psychoanalysis as a human science / Yael Goldman Baldwin -- A human science approach to neuropsychological assessment / William Hasek

ISBN

• 9780820704906 (paperback)
• 0820704903 (paperback)

LCCN

^^2016008614

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library