Overview
- Discusses an issue that is frequently ignored in mainstream literature
Uses casestudies throughout to highlight points made
Written in a clear, accessible and user-friendly style
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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From Personality to Social Psychology
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An Existential Phenomenological Approach
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About this book
Understanding People provides an overview and critique of current psychological assumptions about people and what differentiates them, and replaces them with a set of ideas taken from social constructionism. It begins with an examination of contemporary theories, then explores the critique of the social constructionists, before laying out the basis of an understanding of human action and behaviour, drawing on phenomenology and personal construct theory. Using everyday experience to illustrate the issues in personality theory (Is behaviour situation-specific? Why do we have a sense of self? Is there an unconscious?), this book will breathe life into an area of psychology that is so often arid, and, in the eyes of students, divorced from their world.
About the author
TREVOR BUTT is Reader in Psychology at the University of Huddersfield, where he teaches a variety of courses including personality and social psychology, personal construct psychology and social constructionism. He has published widely on the relationship between personal and social constructionism, and, with Vivien Burr, wrote Invitation to Personal Construct Psychology. He is currently chair of the Psychotherapy section of the British Psychological Society.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding People
Authors: Trevor Butt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-00059-9
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2004
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 193
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave