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Psychological Agency : Theory, Practice, and Culture.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: A Bradford Book SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (272 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262273220
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Psychological AgencyDDC classification:
  • 155.2
LOC classification:
  • BF697.P755 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: A multidisciplinary exploration of agency as a central psychological phenomenon based on the affective, embodied, and relational processing of human experience.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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