Psychology and 'human nature' / Peter Ashworth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ashworth, Peter D.

Series:

Psychology focus.

Psychology focus

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology.

Human beings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Psychology Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Psychology and 'Human Nature' problematizes what psychology usually takes for granted - the meaning of the psyche or 'human nature'. Peter Ashworth provides a coherent account of many of the major schools of thought in psychology and its related disciplines, including: sociobiology and evolutionary psychology, psychoanalysis, cognitive psychology, radical behaviourism, existentialism, discursive psychology and postmodernism. For each approach he considers the claims or assumptions being made about 'human nature', especially regarding issues of consciousness, the self, the body, other

Contents:

Cover; Psychology and 'Human Nature'; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: psychology and 'human nature'; 1. The ultimate biological motive: the evolutionary perspective; 2. Mental conflict: biological drives and social reality; 3. An inner world: cognitive psychology; 4. ...Not separable from the world: Skinner's radical behaviourism; 5. The individual consciousness: anxiously free in a meaningless world; 6. Social being: interacting, and presenting oneself as a person; 7. 'Human nature' as an outmoded cultural presupposition; 8. Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-193) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-61442-X

0-203-13320-X

1-280-40127-3

0-203-17127-6

9780203133200

OCLC:

263595253