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      Creating Theoretical Syntheses

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      Creating Theoretical Syntheses
      Edited ByRainer Diriwächter, Jaan Valsiner
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2008
      eBook Published 25 October 2017
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315130354
      Pages 263
      eBook ISBN 9781315130354
      Subjects Behavioral Sciences
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      Diriwächter, R., & Valsiner, J. (Eds.). (2008). Striving for the Whole: Creating Theoretical Syntheses (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315130354

      ABSTRACT

      This unusual collection explores the development of ideas in psychology's past, and shapes them into a valuable resource for ideas in the discipline's future, with particular emphasis on holistic traditions in psychology. Diriwochter and Valsiner focus on developmental holistic psychology as advocated by the second school of Leipzig in Germany. Although largely neglected, this school of thought has provided some of the fundamental ideas necessary for a truly holistic approach in psychology. This volume includes Leibniz's dynamic holism and Ehrenfels' discussion about Gestalt qualities, which has generally been acknowledged as a major milestone in the formation of Gestalt psychology. Each chapter looks at the possible future of holistic psychology. Striving for the Whole contains several well-though out discussions on possible elaborations of holistic psychology by contrasting it with Ernst Boesch's cultural psychology, Pierre Janet's theory on emotions, and Jan Smuts holistic approach to personality theory. Discussions of holistic approaches in biology and evolutionary psychology, as well as a renewed look at Lloyd Morgan's comparative methodology, complete the volume. Striving for the Whole has been written by an international group of authors and will be of interest to students of the social sciences and intellectual history, and anyone who wants to dive deeper into holistic approaches that maintain their ties with empirical methodology. It is ideal for graduate and upper-level undergraduate courses in psychology.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|11 pages

      Leibniz’s Dynamic Holism*

      ByWalter H. Ehrenstein

      chapter 2|8 pages

      Christian von Ehrenfels

      BySteven C. Kissinger

      chapter 3|25 pages

      Genetic Ganzheitspsychologie

      ByRainer Diriwächter

      chapter 4|12 pages

      Felix Krueger and Ganzheitspsychologie: History of Psychology in Japan before and during World War II

      ByMiki Takasuna, Tatsuya Sato

      chapter 5|29 pages

      Ganzheitspsychologie in Heidelberg

      ByDietmar Görlitz

      chapter 6|21 pages

      Jan Smuts and Personality Theory: The Problem of Holism in Psychology 1

      ByChristopher Shelley

      chapter 7|19 pages

      Janet’s Emotions in the Whole of Human Conduct

      ByTania Zittoun

      chapter 8|20 pages

      Ernst E. Boesch’s Holistic Cultural Psychology

      ByLívia Mathias Simão

      chapter 9|10 pages

      Comparative Methodology as the Human Condition: Conwy Lloyd Morgan and the Use of Animal Models in Science

      ByJaan Valsiner

      chapter 10|15 pages

      Other Minds than Ours 1

      ByConvey Lloyd Morgan

      chapter 11|13 pages

      A Holistic Perspective in Natural Sciences

      ByCamilo E. Khatchikian

      chapter 12|18 pages

      Dynamic Adaptive Psychology: Viewing the Individual through the Lens of Evolution and Development

      ByRosemarie I. Sokol, Philip J. Rosenbaum

      chapter |27 pages

      Conclusion: Returning to the Whole—A New Theoretical Synthesis in the Social Sciences

      ByJaan Valsiner, Rainer Diriwächter
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