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Methods of Theoretical Psychology
ISBN: 9780262112611
Format: Hardback
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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The traditional way to study theoretical psychology is to take up one approach after another- behavioural, psychoanalytic, cognitive, and so on. The aim of this book is to prepare the reader to analyze and advance the theoretical literature in any tradition. More
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Theoretical psychology stands in the same relation to psychology as theoretical physics does to physics. The traditional way to study theoretical psychology is to take up one approach after another- behavioural, psychoanalytic, cognitive, and so on. The aim of this book is not to impart a substantive knowledge of core psychological theories, or even to analyze critically selected theories. Instead, it is to prepare the reader to analyze and advance the theoretical literature in any tradition. A good theoretician should be able to contribute to the study of psychoanalytic theory as readily as to behavioural theory. The skills required are the same. Instead of covering a sequence of theories, therefore, the book is organized around types of theoretical activities. It is not a work in theoretical psychology; it is a book about theoretical psychology. It also confronts psychologists' underestimation of the variety and the significance of theoretical work. Many theoretical issues do not call for empirical research- they require nothing but thinking.
