Striving for the whole : creating theoretical syntheses / Rainer Diriwächter and Jaan Valsiner, editors.
| Other author | Diriwächter, Rainer. |
| Other author | Valsiner, Jaan. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New Brunswick ; London : Transaction Publishers, ©2008. |
| Description | xiii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Preface: The past and future of the whole / Rainer Diriwachter & Jaan Valsiner -- Leibniz's dynamic holism / Walter H. Ehrenstein -- Christian von Ehrenfels / Steven C. Kissinger -- Genetic ganzheitspsychologie / Rainer Diriwachter -- Felix Krueger and ganzheitspsychologie : history of psychology in Japan before and during World War II / Miki Takasuna & Tatsuya Sato -- Ganzheitspsychologie in Heidelberg / Dietmar Gorlitz -- Jan Smuts and personality theory : the problem of holism in psychology / Christopher Shelley -- Janet's emotions in the whole of human conduct / Tania Zittoun -- Ernst E. Boesch's holistic cultural psychology / Livia Mathias Simao -- Comparative methodology as the human condition : Conwy Lloyd Morgan and the use of animal models in science / Jaan Valsiner -- Other minds than ours / Conwy Lloyd Morgan -- A holistic perspective in natural sciences / Camilo E. Khatchikian -- Dynamic adaptive psychology : viewing the individual through the lens of evolution and development / Rosemarie I. Sokol & Philip J. Rosenbaum -- Conclusion: Returning to the whole : a new theoretical synthesis in the social sciences -- Jaan Valsiner & Rainer Diriwachter. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2008005220 |
| ISBN | 9781412807388 |
| ISBN | 1412807387 |