The handbook of humanistic psychology : theory, research, and practice / / edited by Kirk J. Schneider, J. Fraser Pierson & James F.T. Bugental

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910480859603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Thousand Oaks, California : , : SAGE Publications, , 2015
• ISBN: 1-78684-327-7; 1-4833-5649-3; 1-4833-8786-0; 1-4833-2282-3; 1-322-29986-2; 1-4833-1186-4; 1-4522-6774-X; 1-78268-915-X
• Edizione: [Second edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (833 p.)
• Disciplina: 150.19/86; 150.1986
• Soggetti: Humanistic psychology; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: The handbook of humanistic psychology-front cover; The handbook of humanistic psychology; Contents; Foreword to the second edition; Foreword to the first edition; Preface; Introduction; Acknowledgments; About the editors; Part i: Historical overview; Chapter 1: The roots and genealogy of humanistic psychology; Chapter 2: Humanistic psychology at the crossroads; Chapter 3: Humanistic psychology and women: a critical-historical perspective; Chapter 4: Humanistic psychology and multiculturalism: history, current status, and advancements; Part ii: Humanistic theory; meta-themes; Chapter 5: The search for the psyche: a human science perspective; Chapter 6: Rediscovering awe: a new front in humanistic psychology, psychotherapy, and society; Chapter 7: The person as moral agent; ; Chapter 8: The self and humanistic psychology; Chapter 9: Toward a sustainable myth of self: an existential response to the postmodern condition; contemporary themes; Chapter 10: Humanistic psychology and ecology; Chapter 11: Humanistic psychology and peace; Chapter 12: Two noble insurgencies: creativity and humanistic psychology; Special section: Humanistic psychology and the arts; Chapter 13: Becoming authentic: an existential-humanistic approach to reading literature; Chapter 14: Fellini, Fred, and Ginger: imagology and the postmodern world; emergent trends; Chapter 15: Humanistic neuropsychology: the implications of neurophenomenology for psychology; Chapter 16: Humanistic eldercare: toward a new conceptual framework for aging; Chapter 17: Toward a humanistic-multicultural model of development; Chapter 18: Humanistic psychology in dialogue with cognitive science and technological culture; Part iii: Humanistic methodology; Chapter 19: Humanistic psychology and the qualitative research tradition contemporary themes; Chapter 20: An introduction to phenomenological research in psychology: historical, conceptual, and methodological foundations; Chapter 21: The grounded theory method and humanistic psychology; Chapter 22: Heuristic research: design and methodology; Chapter 23: Narrative research and humanism; emergent trends; Chapter 24: Research methodology in humanistic psychology in light of postmodernity; Chapter 25: Hermeneutic single-case efficacy design: an overview; Part iv: Humanistic applications to practice: contemporary themes; Chapter 26: Special section: the renewal of humanism in psychotherapy; Chapter 27: Frames, attitudes, and skills of an existential-humanistic psychotherapist; Special section: the responsibility of the therapist; Chapter 28: Therapy as an I-Thou encounter; Chapter 29: The person of the therapist: one therapist's journey to relationship; Chapter 30: Existential cross-cultural counselling: the courage to be an existential counsellor; Chapter 31: Treating madness without hospitals: soteria and its successors; Special section: Awe and terror in humanistic therapy
• Sommario/riassunto: 'The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology' addresses the latest scholarship in the resurgent field of humanistic psychology and psychotherapy. The contributors reject many trends leading to a standardised and medicalised approach to the subject.

Science and empire in the nineteenth century [[electronic resource] ] : a journey of imperial conquest and scientific progress / / edited by Catherine Delmas, Christine Vandamme and Donna Spalding Andreolle

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464084503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2010
• ISBN: 1-283-14174-4; 1-4438-2596-4; 9786613141743
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): DelmasCatherine; VandammeChristine; AndréolleDonna Spalding
• Disciplina: 325.3201
• Soggetti: Imperialism and science; Science - Social aspects - History - 19th century; Science - History - 19th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-214) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHARLES DOUGHTY'S QUEST AND CRUSADE IN ARABIA DESERTA; "A PERFECT MAP OF PALESTINE" (1872-1880); CARTOGRAPHY IN THE AGE OF SCIENCE; PART II; WESTERN SCIENCE, COLONISATION AND REIFICATION; THE DISCOURSE OF EMPIRICISM AND THE LEGITIMIZATION OF EMPIRE; SKELETONS IN THE CUPBOARD; SCIENCE AND THE AMERICAN EMPIRE; PART III; A "REPUBLIC OF SCIENCE"?; SCIENTIFIC RHETORIC AND THE AMERICAN EMPIRE; PART IV; THE FIRST DINOSAURS AND CHANGING MUSEUM PARADIGMS IN AMERICA; POPULAR EVOLUTIONISM AND THE ETHICS OF PROGRESS; PART V; THE EDIFYING FOLD; QUESTIONING THE EMPIRE OF SCIENCENOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: The issue at stake in this volume is the role of science as a way to fulfil a quest for knowledge, a tool in the exploration of foreign lands, a central paradigm in the discourse on and representations of otherness. ; The interweaving of scientific and ideological discourses is not limited to the geopolitical frame of the British empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but extends to the rise of the American empire as well. The fields of research tackled are human and social scie...