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If personal experience is the basic raw material for psychology, why do all the major psychologies of the past century find reason to marginalize or deny it? Benjamin Bradley presents a thought-provoking study which explores the way our everyday experience of life has been marginalized within the scientific discipline of psychology. Arguing that an experience-based approach to psychology should complement the more traditional scientific approach, Bradley takes a bold initial step towards reclaiming the Enlightenments vision for the discipline.
Synopsis
A thought-provoking study which evaluates the contrasting methods and philosophies of contemporary psychology.
Synopsis
Benjamin Bradley presents a thought-provoking study which explores the way our everyday experience of life has been marginalised within the scientific discipline of psychology. Arguing for a more experience-based approach to psychology, he takes an initial step in reclaiming the Enlightenment"s vision for the discipline.
About the Author
Benjamin Bradley is a well-known psychologist who has published extensively in the areas of developmental and social psychology.
Table of Contents
1. The study of experience: introduction; 2. Psyche and risk: two organizations of the empirical; 3. How to deny mental life: critique; 4. Darwin's sublime: self-critique; 5. Against genesis: logic; 6. Immediacy: meta-theory; 7. Are mental processes shared?: theory; 8. Problems of description: the breakdown of privacy; 9. The high and the low road to discovery: method; 10. Learning from anxiety: pedagogy; 11. Psychological activism: politics.