Jack Martin

Studies of Life Positioning

A New Sociocultural Approach to Psychobiography

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Produktbeschreibung

This book illustrates how Life Positioning Analysis can be used as a theoretical and methodological approach to sociocultural psychobiography. The book will be of interest to students and scholars in areas related to sociocultural and developmental psychology, the psychology and sociology of personhood, theoretical psychology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781032608853
• ISBN-10: 1032608854
• Artikelnr.: 70244426

Autorenporträt

Jack Martin is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is a recipient of the Society of Theoretical and Philosophical Society's Award for Distinguished Lifetime Contributions. The focus of Jack's current work is on personhood and the study of lives, using positioning theories such as Position Exchange Theory and Life Positioning Analysis.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: A Psychobiography of Life Positioning. Chapter 2: Stanley
Milgram's Penchant for Revealing and Concealing. Chapter 3: Pierre Elliott
Trudeau and the 1970 October Crisis in the Canadian Province of Quebec.
Chapter 4: Ernest Becker's Quest for a Philosophical Anthropology by way of
Human Evil. Chapter 5: The Symmetrical Relationship and Conjoint Agency of
Dorothy Burlingham and Anna Freud. Chapter 6: The Asymmetrical,
Manipulative Relationship Between Jim Thorpe and Pop Warner. Chapter 7:
Revisitings, Reflections, and Critical Considerations.