The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology

The first handbook to present cultural-historical psychology as an integrative/holistic developmental science of mind, brain and culture.

Anton Yasnitsky (Edited by), René van der Veer (Edited by), Michel Ferrari (Edited by)

9780521139946, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 23 March 2017

546 pages, 27 b/w illus. 2 tables
24.5 x 17 x 3 cm, 0.95 kg

'Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky was among the most seminal psychologists of the twentieth century. This excellent volume is a fitting tribute to Vygotsky and a testimony to the fact that his theory of 'cultural-historical psychology' is alive and well and continues to influence many strands of psychology worldwide.' Elkhonon Goldberg, author of The Executive Brain, The Wisdom Paradox, and The New Executive Brain

The field of cultural-historical psychology originated in the work of Lev Vygotsky and the Vygotsky Circle in the Soviet Union more than eighty years ago, and has now established a powerful research tradition in Russia and the West. The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology is the first volume to systematically present cultural-historical psychology as an integrative/holistic developmental science of mind, brain, and culture. Its main focus is the inseparable unity of the historically evolving human mind, brain, and culture, and the ways to understand it. The contributors are major international experts in the field, and include authors of major works on Lev Vygotsky, direct collaborators and associates of Alexander Luria, and renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks. The Handbook will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of psychology, education, humanities and neuroscience.

Introduction: what is this book and what is it about? Anton Yasnitsky and René van der Veer
Part I. Theory: 1. Introducing Vygotsky's cultural-historical psychology Ronald Miller
2. Vygotsky's idea of psychological tools Janette Friedrich
3. The problem of consciousness in Vygotsky's cultural-historical psychology Ekaterina Zavershneva
Part II. Method: 4. Methodology of cultural-historical psychology Aaro Toomela
5. Dynamic assessment in search of its identity Alex Kozulin
6. Encountering the border: Vygotsky's zona blizhaishego razvitia and its implications for theories of development Jaan Valsiner and René van der Veer
Part III. Child: 7. Developmental education Galina Zuckerman
8. Tracing the untraceable: the nature-nurture controversy in cultural-historical psychology Elena L. Grigorenko
9. The 'magic of signs': developmental trajectory of cultural mediation Igor M. Arievitch and Anna Stetsenko
Part IV. Language and Culture: 10. Inner form as a notion migrating from West to East: acknowledging the Humboldtian tradition in cultural-historical psychology Marie-Cécile Bertau
11. A review of inner speech in cultural-historical tradition Anke Werani
12. Luria and Vygotsky: challenges to current developmental research Eugene Subbotsky
Part V. Brain: 13. There can be no cultural-historical psychology without neuropsychology. And vice versa Aaro Toomela
14. Cultural-historical neuropsychological perspective on learning disability Tatiana Akhutina and Gary Shereshevsky
15. Cultural-historical theory and cultural neuropsychology today Bella Kotik-Friedgut and Alfredo Ardila
Part VI. Beyond Psychology: Cultural-Historical Psychology and other Disciplines: 16. Cultural-historical psychotherapy Alexander Venger and Elena Morozova
17. From expressive movement to the 'basic problem': the Vygotsky-Luria-Eisensteinian theory of art Oksana Bulgakowa
18. The need for a dialogical science: considering the legacy of Russian-Soviet thinking for contemporary approaches in dialogic research Marie-Cécile Bertau
19. Cognition and its master: new challenges for cognitive science Maria V. Falikman
20. Cultural-historical theory and semiotics Vyacheslav V. Ivanov
21. Luria and 'Romantic Science' Oliver Sacks.

Subject Areas: Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR], Child & developmental psychology [JMC], Psychology [JM]