How to rethink psychology : new metaphors for understanding people and their behavior / Bernard Guerin
- Author
- Guerin, Bernard, 1957-
- Published
- East Sussex ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Physical Description
- xii, 170 pages ; 23 cm
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Understanding our own psychology: alternative ways to think? -- New metaphors to help rethink how people work -- What will be different after rethinking? -- Why bother? -- Causes and contexts: shifting metaphors from current psychology -- Sequential, causal, or contextual basis for human actions? -- Metaphor 1 Our actions are like lumps of Plasticine -- Why do we think action is sequential and constantly decided? -- Thinking contextually -- Metaphor 2 Contexts not causes for growing seeds into plants -- We do not have a `control center' -- Contextual observation -- Metaphor 3 Contextual observations of (blue) holistic elephants -- The rethinking to take away from Chapter 1 -- ch. 2 The ubiquitous social: from social constructionism to social contextualism -- Contextual influence better thought of as waves than particles: three metaphors -- Metaphor 4 Understanding people is better thought of as attuned responding to external contexts using wave-thinking -- Metaphor 5 We can utilize gravity even if physicists do not understand how it works -- Metaphor 6 Think of attunement as sympathetic resonance -- Twelve ways that being alone is social: how can we think that? -- How do social relationships pervade our actions, thinking, and self-thinking? -- What does the wave metaphor get us? -- ch. 3 Language use as the original virtual reality -- Words do not control language use: social contexts do -- Magic, words, and power -- Language use as the original virtual reality -- Metaphor 7 Language use as the original virtual reality -- Two metaphors that help rethink language use as virtual reality -- Back to electromagnetic waves -- Metaphor 8 Language better thought of as attuned responses to waves than as reactions to particles -- "It either happens or it doesn't": contexts are 100 percent -- Metaphor 9 Getting hit 100 percent by a brick and other brute facts of life -- What does all this mean for language use? -- How does this affect the analysis of language use? -- What do we need to know about language-in-social-interaction to understand people? -- ch. 4 Thinking, self-talk, and how to read minds -- Rethinking thoughts and thinking -- Thinking and causality -- Thoughts refigured as virtual reality: the external social control over thoughts -- Metaphor 10 Thinking can also be reimagined as virtual reality -- Thoughts as associations: replacing this oldest metaphor -- Metaphor 11 Thoughts are like the effects of waves rather than emitted particles -- Seven key points for rethinking thinking -- `We' do not control thinking: all thoughts are intrusive thoughts -- Words are not controlled by what is named and neither are thoughts -- Why `consciousness' is directed towards other people -- Thinking is social -- it depends on audiences -- What are the events that happen when we `think'? The social dynamics of thinking -- We can read people's thoughts -- in a way -- Talking about `inner' processes for utilization as rhetoric -- What do we know about contextual strategies of thinking? -- Types of audiences and how they affect thinking -- Ultimately, talking to oneself is from economic, social, cultural, historical, and environmental contexts -- The social strategies of cognitive models -- Conversational strategies in thoughts and thinking -- Discursive strategies implicit in psychotherapies -- Types of unconscious editing -- Types of repression and similar strategies of thoughts -- How can we rethink thoughts? -- ch. 5 The Zen of running our lives: doing, thinking, and talking -- Summary of the plot so far -- Summary description of life -- Two short examples -- Life, words, and Zen -- Where to from here? -- Practical methods of research, understanding, and change -- Philosophy: on being very clear that actions, thinklings, and spoken words are not metaphysically, philosophically, or essentially different -- How should we understand people?.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781138916531 hardcover
1138916536 hardcover
9781138916548 paperback
1138916544 paperback - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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