Overview
- Offers the first collection in English of William Stern’s writings on personalistic psychology
- Reveals William Stern’s complex set of contributions to philosophy, psychology, and methodology
- With a foreword by Helmut Lück
- Discusses the relevance of critically personalistic thinking to contemporary socio-political discourse
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology (PSTHP)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- personalistic psychology
- experimental psychology
- applied psychology
- developmental psychology
- intelligence measurement
- psychology of interpersonal differences
- Critical Personalism
- Philosophical psychology
- William Stern
- psychophysical neutrality
- persons and things
- the entelechy of personal doings
- goal systems
- introception
- individualism
- Impersonalism
- mind-body problem
- Recollection
- psychotechnicians
- Humanistic Psychology
About this book
This book brings together the central tenets of William Stern’s critical personalism. Presented for the first time for an English-speaking audience, this selection of original translations and essays encapsulates the critical framework of Stern’s personalistic psychology. The selected works highlight the philosophical basis of Stern’s personalistic views, illustrate their relevance in domains of theoretical and practical importance in psychology, and reveal Stern’s critical stance on certain methodological trends that were gaining favor within psychology during his lifetime. Lamiell’s own chapters contextualise the translations by providing an overview of the most basic tenets of critical personalism, and offering a commentary on paradigmatic commitments within scientific psychology’s mainstream that began to impede Stern’s efforts prior to his death, and that remain obstacles to personalistic thinking in the discipline today.
Largely ignored by his contemporaries, thiswork forms part of an emerging body of scholarship that seeks to reintroduce Stern’s thinking into contemporary psychology. The book is intended for academically oriented scholars with interests in historical, theoretical and philosophical issues in psychology.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Uncovering Critical Personalism
Book Subtitle: Readings from William Stern’s Contributions to Scientific Psychology
Authors: James T. Lamiell
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67734-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67733-6Published: 11 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67736-7Published: 11 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-67734-3Published: 10 March 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-2452
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2460
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 200
Topics: History of Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Psychology, general, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry