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More examples, less theory : historical studies of writing psychology

Billig, Michael, author

2019

Overview

In his new book, Michael Billig uses psychology's past to argue that nowadays, when we write about the mind, we should use more examples and less theory. He provides a series of historical studies, analysing how key psychological writers used examples. Billig offers new insights about famous analysts of the mind, such as Locke, James, Freud, Tajfel and Lewin. He also champions unfairly forgotten figures, like the Earl of Shaftesbury and the eccentric Abraham Tucker. There is a cautionary chapter on Lacan, warning what can happen when examples are ignored. Marie Jahoda is praised as the ultimate example: a psychologist from the twentieth century with a social and rhetorical imagination fit for the twenty-first.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Psychology Authorship. / Psychology Authorship Case studies. / Psychology Research.
• ISBN: 9781108736022, 9781108498418

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
BF76.8.B55 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE