Psychology and Experience

by Benjamin Bradley

Overview

If personal experience is the basic raw material for psychology, why do all the major psychologies of the past century find reason to marginalize or deny it? Benjamin Bradley presents a thought-provoking study which explores the way our everyday experience of life has been marginalized within the scientific discipline of psychology. Arguing that an experience-based approach to psychology should complement the more traditional scientific approach, Bradley takes a bold initial step towards reclaiming the Enlightenments vision for the discipline.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521011990
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	06/30/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.94(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.83(d)

About the Author

Benjamin Bradley is a well-known psychologist who has published extensively in the areas of developmental and social psychology.

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Learning from experience; 3. From here to synchrony; 4. What to make of coincidence; 5. The topography of intersubjective space; 6. The two axes of psychological explanation; 7. Pictures of psychical change; 8. Research among equals; 9. Validating the curriculum; 10. Conclusion.