Persons: Understanding Psychological Selfhood and Agency

• Main Authors: Martin, Jack (Author), Sugarman, Jeff H. (Author), Hickinbottom, Sarah (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Clinical psychology.; Developmental psychology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Clinical Psychology.; Developmental Psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.

Persons Understanding Psychological Selfhood and Agency Jack Martin, Jeff Sugarman, and Sarah Hickinbottom At its core, psychology is about persons: their thinking, their problems, the improvement of their lives. The understanding of persons is crucial to the discipline. But according to this provoc...

Table of Contents:

• A Theory of Persons and Selves for Psychology
• Introduction: The Problem of Selves and Persons in Psychology
• A Theory of Self and Personhood for Psychology
• The Political Disposition of Self as a Kind of Understanding
• Human Agency and the Irreducibility of Persons
• Persons and Moral Agency
• Emergent Persons
• John Macmurray’s Philosophy of the Personal and the Irreducibility of Persons
• Perspectives, Selves, and Persons
• Real Perspectival Selves
• Perspectival Selves in Interaction with Others: Re-reading G.H. Mead’s Social Psychology
• Perspectives and Persons: Ontological, Constitutive Possibilities
• The Psychology of Persons: An Idea Whose Time Has Come (Again).