Theoretical Issues in Psychology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Embodied Experience

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Creative Ways of Being

      • Ann Game

      Pages 3-12

   3. And the Subject was Made Flesh: The Aesthetic and Corporate Dimensions of Psychology’s Body

      • Henderikus J. Stam

      Pages 13-21

   4. Plugged In: Psychology, Technology and Popular Culture

      • Betty M. Bayer

      Pages 23-34

   5. Technologies of Trans-Sexing: Discursive Tension and Resistance within Psycho-Medical and Transgendered Theorising of Transsexual Bodies

      • Katrina Roen

      Pages 35-45

3. Social and Cultural Processes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47

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   2. Human Experience and the Enigma of Culture: Toward an Enactive Account of Cultural Practice

      • Cor Baerveldt, Theo Verheggen, Paul Voestermans

      Pages 49-57

   3. From Shared Representations to Consensually Coordinated Actions: Toward an Intrinsically Social Psychology

      • Theo Verheggen, Cor Baerveldt

      Pages 59-67

   4. Cultural Psychology Meets Evolutionary Psychology: Toward a New Role for Biology in the Study of Culture and Experience

      • Paul Voestermans, Cor Baerveldt

      Pages 69-81

   5. The Tajfel Effect

      • Steven D. Brown, Peter Lunt

      Pages 83-93

   6. Discourse Analysis and Structural Supervision

      • Arnd Hofmeister

      Pages 95-104

   7. Forming Cultures Through Virtual Social Communities

      • Claudia Orthmann, Lars Näcke

      Pages 105-115

4. Perception, Cognition and Reasoning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. Points of View and the Visual Arts: James Turrell, Antonio Damasio and The “No Point of View” Phenomenon

      • Ciarán Benson

      Pages 119-129

   3. Beyond Representationalism: A Dynamical Approach Transcending Symbolism in Cognitive Psychology

      • Donald L. Rowe

      Pages 131-143

   4. The Dialectic of Critique, Theory and Method in Developing Feminist Research on Inference

      • Rachel Joffe Falmagne

      Pages 145-157

   5. Getting Rid of the Homunculus: A Direct Realist Approach

      • Terence McMullen

      Pages 159-167

5. Social Constructionism and Metatheoretical Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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   2. Logical Positivism and Gergen’s Social Constructionism: No Radical Disjunction in Twentieth Century Psychological Metatheory

      • Fiona J. Hibberd

      Pages 171-180

Theoretical Issues in Psychology is published as the discipline of psychology enters its (at least) third century. The year 2001 brings with it millennial reflections, as well as the strange sense of deja vu that we derive from the Kubrick movie. As to the former, a glance at the contents list of this volume will demonstrate both the maturity and the vigour of theoretical debate within psychology. There is a level of sophistication here that should be the cause of quiet celebration. Recent ideas about discursive practice and subjectivity, chaos theory and autopoiesis, are effortlessly entrained with classical issues. Canonical texts are looked at with fresh eyes. Unresolved social and political questions are doggedly persisted with, and new perspectives on the human experience are pioneered. We are not afraid of long words, even if French in origin, but nor are we afraid to recognise that we are physical beings who touch other beings, who hold, desire, and remember - and who talk, talk, talk. For surely it is theoretically-sensitive work in psychology - whether "critical" or not - that best represents what the discipline has to offer the wider community.

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• Cognition
• Cognitive psychology
• Cultural Psychology
• Embodiment
• Perception
• The Unconscious
• Theoretical Psychology
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• social psychology

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