Recent Trends in Theoretical Psychology

1. Front Matter

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2. Keynote Addresses

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Bridgman’s “Operational Analysis” versus “Operational Definition” in Psychology: A Study in the Pathology of Scholarship

      • Sigmund Koch

      Pages 3-16

   3. Social Discourse and Moral Science

      • Daniel N. Robinson

      Pages 17-28

3. Foundational Issues in Psychology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. Understanding Human Nature: A Post-Foundationalist Psychology

      • Leendert P. Mos, Casey P. Boodt

      Pages 31-39

   3. Social Constructionist Psychoanalysis and the Real

      • Ian Parker

      Pages 41-49

   4. Psychological Theorizing in a Subject-Scientific Perspective: Determining Subjective Grounds for Action

      • Wolfgang Maiers

      Pages 51-63

   5. Discovery, Intentionality and the Constructionist Project in Psychology

      • Morris Shames

      Pages 65-76

   6. The Fear of Relativism in Post-Positivist Psychology

      • Anand C. Paranjpe

      Pages 77-83

   7. The Structuralist Program as a Methodology for Theoretical Psychology

      • Hans Westmeyer

      Pages 85-97

   8. The Functional Level of Analysis in Psychology

      • Huib Looren de Jong

      Pages 99-109

   9. Hermeneutics of Lived Experience: The Foundations of a Historical Psychology

      • Casey P. Boodt, Leendert P. Mos

      Pages 111-122

   10. Psychology of Science as a Contribution to Metascience

       • P. J. van Strien

       Pages 123-132

4. Beyond Criticism in Psychology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133

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   2. The Limits of Psychological Critique

      • Kenneth J. Gergen

      Pages 135-142

   3. Is There Anything Beyond the Ideological Critique of Individualism?

      • Henderikus J. Stam

      Pages 143-151

   4. Questioning the Researcher’s Existence: From Deconstruction to Practice

      • Ben Bradley

      Pages 153-161

   5. Beyond Objectivism and Relativism in Dream Interpretation

      • Sybe J. S. Terwee

      Pages 163-169

5. Theoretical Studies in Psychology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171

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I was asked and, alas, with little reflection on the magnitude of the task, thoughtlessly consented, to take on the 'simple' job of writing a preface to the collection of essays comprising this volume. That I was asked to carry out this simple task was probably due to one consideration: I was the main representative of the host institution (Clark University) for the 1991 ISTP Conference, at which the talks, foreshadowing and outlining the 'extended remarks' here printed, were originally presented, and hence, as a token of gratitude, I was vouchsafed the honor of setting the stage. It did not dawn on me, until I began piecemeal to receive and accumulate, over a period of months, the remarkably diverse and heterogeneous essays precipitated by the conference, how mind-boggling it would be to pen a preface pertinent to such an aggregate of prima/acie unrelated articles. Typically, prefaces to collections of essays from different hands are attempts by the prefator or a pride of prefators to provide an overview, a concise map, of the complex terrain which readers are invited to enter; or to direct the attention of potential readers to what the editors take to be the essential or central themes of each of the variegated articles: a practice which, not infrequently and often not unjustifiably, irritates and even enrages individual authors, who object to the complexity, profundity, and nuanced character of their thought being reduced to clicMs and editorial equivalents of sound bites.

• Dream Interpretation
• Experiment
• Psychologie
• Qualitative Research
• Theoretical Psychology
• psychoanalysis
• systems theory

• Department of Psychology, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

  Henderikus J. Stam

• Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

  Leendert P. Mos

• Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

  Warren Thorngate

• Heinz Werner Institute for Developmental Analysis and Frances Hiatt School of Psychology, Clark University, Worcester, USA

  Bernie Kaplan

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