Striving for the whole : creating theoretical syntheses / Rainer Diriwächter and Jaan Valsiner, editors.

Other author Diriwächter, Rainer.
Other author Valsiner, Jaan.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Brunswick ; London : Transaction Publishers, ©2008.
Descriptionxiii, 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008005220
ISBN9781412807388
ISBN1412807387