Resituating Humanistic Psychology

Finding Meaning in an Age of Medicalization, Digitization, and Identity Politics

Patrick M. Whitehead, Miles Groth

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2019
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978778436
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

In Resituating Humanistic Psychology, Patrick Whitehead and Miles Groth urge psychologists to return to the aims and goals of psychology as it first emerged. Illustrating how the field has veered from its initial conception, Whitehead and Groth trace its growth from the late 1800s to the humanistic revolution of the 1960s to the current period of social unrest. Whitehead and Groth touch on Wilhelm Wundt's and William James's vision for the field; the lasting changes made to clinical psychology, methods of investigation, and psychology of learning in the 1960s; and the effects of isolation, extreme connectivity, and social politics on psychology today. This book is recommended for scholars and students of psychology, history, and philosophy.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter One: Psychology (and what it isn’t)
• Chapter Two: The Early Promise of Psychology
• Chapter Three: A Nation Ill-at-ease
• Chapter Four: Insights for Research and Education
• Chapter Five: From Talking Cure to Psychotherapy
• Chapter Six: May the Force Be with You
• Chapter Seven: Scientific Precursors to the Second Humanistic Revolution
• Chapter Eight: The Fundamentals of Existentialism
• Chapter Nine: Psychopathologization
• Chapter Ten: Identity Politics
• Chapter Eleven: Resituating Psychology in the Humanities
• Conclusion
• Appendix
• References
• Index
• About the Authors