ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses what all the approaches have in common—in particular, how they all delineate psychological phenomena that lie outside the boundaries of a great deal of conventional psychology. It divides them into two broad types of projects: those that champion the arts as psychology and those that want to retain an analytical and discursive character for psychology but do so by drawing on social, cultural, or psychological theories for their interpretive frameworks. Surely one function of the term psychological humanities is as a foil for the more commonly used designation psychological science. The sophisticated, integrative, and inventive chapters help strengthen the case for legitimizing complementary and alternative forms of psychological inquiry. Might the ostensibly novel rubric of psychological humanities, which reprises visions and approaches that have been around for a long time, nonetheless advance their influence even more fully than previous initiatives were able to do?
