Turning psychology into social contextual analysis / Bernard Guerin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guerin, Bernard, 1957- author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Exploring the environmental and social foundations of human behaviour

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human behavior.

Social psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 160 pages) : illustrations.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Bernard Guerin has worked in both Australia and New Zealand researching and teaching to merge psychology with the social sciences. His main research now focuses on contextualizing 'mental health' behaviours, working with Indigenous communities, and exploring social contextual analyses especially for language use and thinking.

Contents:

1 Where psychology went wrong 60 years ago: an erroneous turn at the fork in the Gestalt road p. 1

2 Going back to the 'fork in the road' and starting a fresh contextual approach p. 26

3 Language is a socially transitive verb-huh? p. 43

4 How can thinking possibly originate in our environments? p. 68

5 Contextualizing perception: continuous micro responses focus-engaging with the changing effects of fractal-like environments? p. 89

6 Contextualizing emotions: when words fail us p. 108

7 The perils of using language in everyday life: the dark side of discourse and thinking p. 123

8 Weaning yourself off cognitive models: the cognitive revolution p. 135.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 10, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781003021261

1003021263

9781000094756

1000094758

9781000094695

1000094693

Publisher Number:

40030134408

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.