Beshara Robert K. (ed.) A Critical Introduction to Psychology

Nova Science Publishers, 2019. — 316 p. — ISBN: 2019044453, 2019044454, 9781536164916, 9781536164923. — Robert K. Beshara, Fernando González Rey, Jan De Vos, Nick Atlas, Patrick M. Whitehead, Marie-Cécile Bertau and John L. Roberts, Elizabeth Deligio, Kathleen S. G. Skott-Myhre, Neill Korobov, Christopher R. Bell, Stephanie Amedeo Marquez, Timothy, Shose Kessi.Towards a Pluriversal PsychologyThe Rescue of Subjectivity from a Cultural-Historical StandpointSome Antecedents of the Rejection of Subjectivity in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Subjectivity from a Cultural–Historical Standpoint: Its Relevance for Advancing a New Critical Path in PsychologyNeuroscience in Psychology Textbooks: Reclaiming Our Non-Psychology
Introduction: It’s All in the Brain
Mind the Gap
Textbook Infantilization
Criticality: Conclusion
EpilogueExploring Consciousness: Old Habits and New Horizons
The Problem of Consciousness
Critiquing the Way Consciousness is Presented in Introductory Psychology Textbooks
Defining Consciousness
Presupposing “Normal Waking Consciousness”
The Big Four
Revisioning the Way Consciousness Is Taught
Phenomenological Psychology
Transpersonal Psychology
Consciousness and Dreaming
Experiential Learning and Personal GrowthSeeing Race: Towards a Critical Race Psychology of PerceptionCritical Race Theory and Psychology
Mainstream Psychology of Perception Is Euro-Centric
Cognitivist Model of Racism: A Review of Wilson, Hugenberg, and Rule (2017)
Falling Short of CRP
Atomizing Racism
Ignoring the Subjectivity of the Subject of Investigation
The Role Played by the Psychologists in Hiding Racism, Privilege
A Critical Examination of an Introductory Psychology Text: Richard Griggs’s “Sensation and Perception” Chapter
An Alternative Path to PerceptionLearning: A Social and Collaborative Activity in Dialogue with OthersLearning Is Central to the Human Condition
Learning Is Mediated
Responsibilities
Implicit Assumptions
History
Empirical Psychology Seeking for Natural Laws
The Private, Invisible Mind
Engineering Learning
Alignment to the Efficiency Agenda
Intermediate Step: Overview
Behaviorism
Cognitivism
Constructivism
Dialogism
Dialogic Learning
The Illuminating Cycle of Address-Reply-Understanding
Multi-Voiced Interactions
From Social Speech to Thinking for Oneself
Liberating LearningMemory: More Than RecallCritical Lens: Decoloniality
Memory in Context
Interwoven Sites of Memory: Individual, Collective, Historical, and Contested
Individual Memory
Collective Memory
Historical Memory
Contested MemoryBeyond Development and Morality: Entanglements of Life as Political Praxis
Feminism and Developmental PsychologyA Critical Discursive Approach to IdentityA Critical Discursive Approach to Identity
Central Components of a Critical Discursive Approach to Identity
Social Constructionism and Relationality
Ethnomethodology: Empirically Grounded Categorizations
Positioning: Indexing Identities through an Analysis of Discursive ActionsCritical Perspectives on Personality and Subjectivity
Traditional Theories
Psychoanalysis
Humanistic Psychology
Contemporary Theories
Trait Theories
Social-Cognitive Theories
Alternative Theories
Theory of Personhood
Culture and Subjectivity
The Discursive Self: From Personality to SubjectivityTowards a More Social Social Psychology
Social Psychology as a Discipline
Method
Results
Coverage of the Asch Experiment
Discussion and Implications
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix CA Critical Approach to Abnormality
Colonization through the Concept of Abnormality
A History of Deinstitutionalization of Mental Health Professions
Charting Trends for Alternative Psychosocial Practices
Networking Care around Mental Health
Rethinking Subjectivity through Frames of IndigeneityThe Future of Psychology
Power in Everyday Contexts
Material Power
Symbolic Power
Psychological Power
Psychology and Resistance
Identity and Resistance
Epistemic Justice
PraxisAbout the Editor
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