Psychologizing
A Personal, Practice-based Approach to Psychology
Psychologizing introduces students to the study of psychology by encouraging them to approach the subject on a personal level. Classroom-tested, the psychologizing model emphasizes learning through practice. A conversational and highly engaging narrative prompts students to begin thinking like psychologists as they examine key concepts, including learning, development, personality, and emotion. Based on the practice of phenomenology, Psychologizingemphasizes meaning and context. Chapters include a discussion of influential psychologists who have adopted this attitude and, in doing so, have forever changed the way that we understand thinking and learning. By exploring how experience is always meaningful, and how meaning can only be understood within a context, students will sharpen and develop critical thinking, and reflect on how they identify and shape meaning in their own lives.
Reviews
“A comprehensive introduction and an excellent overview of the questions psychology raises.” Miles Groth, Wagner College
“Amazingly engaging and representative of what psychology will be in the future. Overall, the best single introduction to a phenomenological approach to psychology that I have read. Whtiehead’s writing is superb. It is concise, entertaining without pandering, and most of all interesting. This is a text that students will actually read!” -Ralph W. Hood, Jr., University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
