Section I. Alternative Conceptions of Psychology as a Discipline 1. Minds, Brains, or Persons? What is Psychology About? 2. Psychology’s Flawed Focus on Individuals and Individualism: A Strong Relationality Alternative 3. The End of Disembodied Mind: Fleshing Out Psychology 4. The Distorting Lens of Psychology’s Individualism and a Social Realist Alternative 5. Should Psychology Care About Metaphysics? 6. Philosophical Hermeneutics: Beyond Objectivism and Relativism in Psychology 7. Carving the Joints: The Ontology and Epistemology of Natural Kinds in Psychology; Section II. Alternative Conceptions of Fields Within Psychology: Positive Psychology, Development, Learning, Evolutionary Psychology, History, and Ethics 8. A Social Constructionist Critique of Positive Psychology 9. Striving for the Whole Toward an Organismic Theory of Development 10. Beyond Mechanism in Psychological Theories of Learning: A Hermeneutic Account of Embodied Familiarization 11. Reductive Naturalism and Evolutionary Psychology’s Empty Ethics of Enhancement: A Phenomenological Alternative 12. Psychology and the Significance of History 13. Philosophical and Political Lessons from the Hoffman Report: Toward a Hermeneutic Re-Moralization of Psychology; Section III. Alternative Conceptions of Self and Identity; 14. Who am I? Towards a Multi-Voiced Dialogical Self 15. Racial Identity and Transnational Migration: Black-Canadian and Indian-American Diaspora 16. A Critical Interpretative Psychology of Gender 17. Narrative Psychology and Beyond: Returning the Other to the Story of the Self 18. Subjectivity 19. Preserving Agency as a Human Phenomenon; Section IV. Alternative Conceptions of Psychological Inquiry 20. A Nonreductive "Person-based Ontology" for Psychological Inquiry 21. Why Human Inquiry Is Different than Natural Science Inquiry 22. The Participatory Perspective: Moving Beyond "Pro-World" Approaches to Theorizing in Psychology Without Adopting "Pro-Subject/Mind" Approaches 23. Metaphors, Idioms, and Clichés: The Rhetoric of Objectivity in Psychological Science Discourse 24. Existential Phenomenological Research: A "Human Science" Alternative for Psychology; Section V. Alternative Conceptions of Psychological Practices: Psychotherapy, Abnormality, Theorizing, Aging, and Marriage 25. The Virtue of Virtue for Psychotherapy: Contextualizing and Situating the Conversation 26. Subjectivity, Schizophrenia, and the Self: An Introduction to Phenomenological Psychopathology 27. The Praxis of Theorizing in Psychology: From Traditional to Critical Perspectives 28. Radicalizing Aging Theory in a Participatory Democracy: Critical Reflective Praxis of Phenomenology as Enacted Activism 29. Rethinking Marriage in a Post-Traditional Western World
