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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction and Foundational Issues
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Classical Topics in Psychology
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Development, Emotion, and Social Psychology
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The Clinical Area
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Explorations of Central Life Issues
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About this book
When I began to study psychology a half century ago, it was defined as "the study of behavior and experience." By the time I completed my doctorate, shortly after the end of World War II, the last two words were fading rapidly. In one of my first graduate classes, a course in statistics, the professor announced on the first day, "Whatever exists, exists in some number." We dutifully wrote that into our notes and did not pause to recognize that thereby all that makes life meaningful was being consigned to oblivion. This bland restructuring-perhaps more accurately, destruction-of the world was typical of its time, 1940. The influence of a narrow scientistic attitude was already spreading throughout the learned disciplines. In the next two decades it would invade and tyrannize the "social sciences," education, and even philosophy. To be sure, quantification is a powerful tool, selectively employed, but too often it has been made into an executioner's axe to deny actuality to all that does not yield to its procrustean demands.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Existential-Phenomenological Perspectives in Psychology
Book Subtitle: Exploring the Breadth of Human Experience
Editors: Ronald S. Valle, Steen Halling
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6989-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1989
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-6989-3Published: 08 March 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 355