Psychological Agency : Theory, Practice, and Culture.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (272 pages)
- A Bradford Book Series .
- A Bradford Book Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Situated Nature of Psychological Agency -- I Theoretical Contexts -- 1 The Agency of the Self and the Brain's Illusions -- 2 Becoming Agents: Hegel, Nietzsche, and Psychoanalysis -- 3 Understanding Persons as Relational Agents: The Philosophy of John Macmurray and Its Implications for Psychology -- II Clinical and Developmental Contexts -- 4 Perspectival Selves and Agents: Agency within Sociality -- 5 Agency and Its Clinical Phenomenology -- 6 Agency as Fluid Process: Clinical and Theoretical Considerations -- 7 Dimensions of Agency and the Process of Coparticipant Inquiry -- III Social and Cultural Contexts -- 8 Psychological Agency: A Necessarily Human Concept -- 9 Sexual Agency in Women: Beyond Romance -- 10 Navigating Cultural Contexts: Agency and Biculturalism -- Contributors -- Index.
A multidisciplinary exploration of agency as a central psychological phenomenon based on the affective, embodied, and relational processing of human experience.