Critical Psychology
Contributions to an Historical Science of the Subject

This 1991 volume provides a coherent and broadly elaborated description of critical psychology.

Charles W. Tolman (Edited by), Wolfgang Maiers (Edited by)

9780521031004, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 23 November 2006

284 pages
22.8 x 15 x 1.6 cm, 0.445 kg

"This is a valuable English-language introduction to the basic concepts of Critical Psychology...." Philip Wexler, Theory and Psychology

Critical psychology constitutes a radical critique and reconstruction of scientific psychology from a dialectical and historical-materialistic point of view. Its aim is to provide a firmer foundation than presently exists for a psychology that is methodologically sound, practically relevant and theoretically determinate. This book was first published in 1991.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors
1. Critical psychology: an overview Charles W. Tolman
2. Critical psychology: historical background and task Wolfgang Maiers
3. Societal and individual life processes Klaus Holzkamp
4. Experience of self and scientific objectivity Klaus Holzkamp
5. Psychoanalysis and Marxist psychology Klaus Holzkamp
6. Emotion, cognition, and action potence Ute Holzkamp-Osterkamp
7. Action potence, education, and psychotherapy Ute Holzkamp-Osterkamp
8. Personality: self-actualization in social vacuums? Ute Holzkamp-Osterkamp
9. The concept of attitude Morus Markard
10. Client interests and possibilities in psychotherapy Ole Dreier
11. Play and Ontogenesis Karl-Heinz Brawn
12. Functions of the private sphere in social movements Frigga Haug
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Social, group or collective psychology [JMH]