Existential-phenomenological perspectives in psychology : exploring the breadth of human experience : with a special section on transpersonal psychology

Abstract

I Introduction and Foundational Issues.- 1 An Introduction to Existential-Phenomenological Thought in Psychology.- 2 Psychology and the Attitude of Science.- 3 Phenomenological Research Methods.- II Classical Topics in Psychology.- 4 Brain, Body, and World: Body Image and the Psychology of the Body.- 5 Approaches to Perception in Phenomenological Psychology: The Alienation and Recovery of Perception in Modern Culture.- 6 Learning and Memory from the Perspective of Phenomenological Psychology.- III Development, Emotion, and Social Psychology.- 7 A Phenomenological Approach to Child Development.- 8 An Empirical-Phenomenological Investigation of Being Anxious: An Example of the Phenomenological Approach to Emotion.- 9 The Social Psychology of Person Perception and the Experience of Valued Relationships.- IV The Clinical Area.- 10 Personality and Assessment.- 11 Demystifying Psychopathology: Understanding Disturbed Persons.- 12 Psychotherapy and Human Experience.- V Explorations of Central Life Issues.- 13 Transformation of the Passions: Psychoanalytic and Phenomenological Perspectives.- 14 The Psychology of Forgiving Another: A Dialogai Research Approach.- 15 Aesthetic Consciousness.- VI Transpersonal Psychology.- 16 The Emergence of Transpersonal Psychology.- 17 Basic Postulates for a Transpersonal Psychotherapy.- 18 Transpersonal Psychology: Promise and Prospects.- 19 The Imagery in Movement Method: A Process Tool Bridging Psychotherapeutic and Transpersonal Inquiry.- 20 States of Consciousness and Transpersonal Psychology.- Name Index.