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Michael Billig is Professor of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. He has published books on a number of topics, including nationalism, rhetoric, psychoanalysis, fascism, and the history of rock’n’roll. His most recent books are The Hidden Roots of Critical Psychology (Sage) and Learn to Write Badly: How to Succeed in the Social Sciences (Cambridge University Press).
Svend Brinkmann is Professor of Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark, where he serves as codirector of the Center for Qualitative Studies. His research is particularly concerned with philosophical, moral, and methodological issues in psychology and other human and social sciences. Currently, he is working on a research project that studies the impact of psychiatric diagnoses on individuals and society. He is author and coauthor of numerous articles and books, among them InterViews: Learning the Craft of Qualitative Research Interviewing (Sage, 2008), Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Life (Sage, 2012), John Dewey: Science for a Changing World (Transaction, 2013), and Qualitative Interviewing (Oxford University Press, 2013).
Adrian Charles Brock is an independent scholar living in Manchester, England. He is a specialist in history and theory of psychology and has over 50 publications in this field. He is on the editorial boards of several journals, including History of Psychology and the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. He is also the editor or coeditor of two books, Internationalizing the History of Psychology (NYU Press, 2006) and Rediscovering the History of Psychology: Essays Inspired by the Work of Kurt Danziger (Springer, 2004).
John Chambers Christopher is a Professor of Psychiatry at Dartmouth. His scholarship is in theoretical and philosophical psychology, cultural psychology, health psychology, and developmental psychology. A former President of the Society of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (Division 24 of the APA), John is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a Fulbright Scholar. He is a core member of the Mind and Life Institute’s initiative to promote the Dalai Lama’s vision of a secular ethics.
Blaine J. Fowers (PhD, University of Texas at Austin) is Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Miami. His scholarly interests are the contributions of Aristotle’s ethics to a richer understanding of psychological practices and ordinary life. He is the author of Virtue and Psychology, Beyond the Myth of Marital Happiness, and a coauthor of Re-envisioning Psychology. Currently, he is completing a book entitled Sociality and the Human Good: Toward a Natural Theory of Ethics.
Mark Freeman is Professor and Chair of Psychology and Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Society at the College of the Holy Cross. His writings include Rewriting the Self: History, Memory, Narrative (Routledge, 1993), Hindsight: The Promise and Peril of Looking Backward (Oxford, 2010), The Priority of the Other: Thinking and Living Beyond the Self (Oxford, 2014), and numerous articles on issues ranging from memory and identity all the way to the psychology of art and religion. Winner of the 2010 Theodore R. Sarbin Award in the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, he is also a Fellow in the American Psychological Association and serves as editor for the Oxford University Press series “Explorations in Narrative Psychology.”
Roger Frie is Professor of Education, Simon Fraser University; Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia; Faculty and Supervisor, William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology, New York, and Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles; and coeditor of The International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. He has published six books that examine the intersection of psychoanalysis, social theory, and philosophy.
Samuel C. Gable is the Program Coordinator at the Psychology and the Other Institute at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. He attends Lesley's Counseling Psychology graduate program. His research explores the issue of implicit social attitudes, cognitive-moral development, and counselor education.
David M. Goodman is the Interim Associate Dean at the Woods College of Advancing Studies at Boston College, the Director of Psychology and the Other, and a Teaching Associate at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Hospital. Dr Goodman has written over a dozen articles on continental philosophy, Jewish thought, social justice, and psychotherapy, and his recent book The Demanded Self: Levinasian Ethics and Identity in Psychology (Duquesne University Press) considers the intersection of psychology, philosophy, and theology as it pertains to narcissism, ethical phenomenology, and selfhood. His forthcoming co-edited book (with Mark Freeman), Psychology and the Other: A Dialogue at the Crossroad of an Emerging Field (Oxford University Press), compiles some of the conversations from the first Psychology and the Other Conference in 2011. Dr Goodman is also a licensed clinical psychologist and has a private practice in Cambridge, MA.
Rom Harré studied chemical engineering but began his teaching career in mathematics. He did graduate work at Oxford, becoming the University Lecturer in Philosophy of Science and Fellow of Linacre College, posts he held until 1996. Subsequently he has been Distinguished Research Professor at Georgetown University in Washington DC. He has published in philosophy of the hard sciences, and is currently President of the International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry. His work in discursive psychology was inspired by the writings of John L. Austin, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Lev S. Vygotsky.
Hubert J.M. Hermans is Professor Emeritus at the Radboud University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He is best known as the creator of dialogical self theory. He is author of The Dialogical Self: Meaning as Movement (1993), coauthored by Harry Kempen, Self-Narratives: The Construction of Meaning in Psychotherapy (1995), coauthored with Els Hermans-Jansen, and Dialogical Self Theory: Positioning and Counter-Positioning in a Globalizing Society (2010), coauthored by Agnieszka Hermans-Konopka. He is editor of the Handbook of Dialogical Self Theory (2012), coedited by Thorsten Gieser.
Brent Hopkins is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at Fielding Graduate University.
Amy C. Jennings is a senior majoring in psychology at Brigham Young University with a minor in ballroom dance. She also is a member of the WomanStats Project team, collecting research on women throughout the world.
Clayton T. Johnson graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology. He is the author or coauthor of several journal articles, conference presentations, and posters.
Ruthellen Josselson is Professor of Psychology at the Fielding Graduate University. She is currently editor of the APA Journal, Qualitative Psychology and formerly a coeditor of The Narrative Study of Lives series. She has written many journal articles about narrative research and received both the Henry A. Murray and Theodore R. Sarbin awards from the American Psychological Association. Her most recent book is Interviewing for Qualitative Research: A Relational Approach.
Suzanne R. Kirschner is Professor of Psychology and Director of College Scholar Programs at the College of the Holy Cross. She was educated at Swarthmore College and Harvard University. Her books and articles deal with the relationships between psychology and its sociocultural contexts. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, a past President of APA’s Division 24 (Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology), and an associate editor of Qualitative Psychology.
James T. Lamiell is Professor in the Department of Psychology at Georgetown University in Washington DC. During sabbatical leaves from Georgetown, he has also been a visiting professor at the German universities of Heidelberg (1990), Leipzig (1998), and Hamburg (2004). His major interests are in the history and philosophy of psychology, and particularly in the works of William Stern (1871–1938).
Matthew LaVine is a PhD candidate at the University at Buffalo and Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at SUNY Potsdam. His primary research interests lie in the intersection of issues in the philosophy of language, the history and philosophy of science, metaphilosophy, and the history and sociology of early analytic philosophy. He is coauthor of “The Relevance of Analytic Philosophy to Personal, Public, and Democratic Life” (forthcoming, Essays in Philosophy) and regularly teaches courses on paradoxes and logic.
Kareen Ror Malone teaches at the University of West Georgia in the Department of Psychology. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and former President of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. She has coedited several books on Lacanian psychoanalysis and coauthored, with Osbeck, Nersessian and Newstetter, Science as Psychology: Sense Making and Identity in Science Practice. She is a member of the Aprês Coup Psychoanalytic Association in New York City.
Cristina Marinho teaches at Derby University. She completed her doctorate in social psychology at the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University. Together with Michael Billig, she has published in Critical Discourse Studies and in Analysing Fascist Discourse, edited by R. Wodak and J. E. Richardson.
Jack Martin is Burnaby Mountain Professor of Psychology at Simon Fraser University. His research interests are in the philosophy and history of psychology, with particular emphasis on the psychology of personhood. He is Series Editor of the Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology. His most recent books are The Education of Selves: How Psychology Transformed Students, coauthored with Ann-Marie McLellan (Oxford University Press, 2013), and The Psychology of Personhood, coedited with Mark Bickhard (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Lisa M. Osbeck is Professor of Psychology at the University of West Georgia and a Research Affiliate of the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is a Fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, and the American Psychological Association. She is the recipient of the Sigmund Koch Award (2005) and the Theodore Sarbin Award (2012) from the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. Her coauthored book Science as Psychology: Sense Making and Identity in Science Practice (2011) was cowinner of the William James Book Award from the American Psychological Association (Division 1). Current projects include Rational Intuition: Philosophical Roots, Scientific Investigations, coedited with Barbara Held (Cambridge University Press, expected 2014).
Timothy P. Racine is an Associate Professor in the History, Quantitative and Theoretical Psychology research area at the Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada. His research interests include the role of conceptual analysis and evolutionary explanation in psychology and allied disciplines. He has published widely on issues in these areas, and most recently is editor, with Kate Slaney, of A Wittgensteinian Perspective on the Use of Conceptual Analysis in Psychology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
Frank C. Richardson is Professor of Educational Psychology Emeritus at the University of Texas, Austin. He is coauthor or editor of several books, including Re-envisioning Psychology and Critical Thinking about Psychology and the author of many articles on theoretical psychology and the philosophy of social science. His current interests include topics in psychology and religion. He is a past President of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (Division 24 of the American Psychological Association).
Nora Ruck is currently a Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of Psychology at the Sigmund Freud University in Vienna and at the History and Theory of Psychology Program at York University. As a psychologist (PhD from the University of Vienna in 2012) with additional training in cultural studies and feminist science studies, her research focuses on the relations between psychology and society at large.
Alexandra Rutherford is an Associate Professor of Psychology at York University in Toronto. She specializes in the history and theory of psychology, with a focus on feminist and gender issues. She is the Director of Psychology’s Feminist Voices, a multimedia digital archive project (www.feministvoices.com) and the coeditor of Handbook of International Feminisms: Perspectives on Psychology, Women, Culture, and Rights (Springer, 2011).
Kate Sheese is a doctoral student in critical social psychology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research focuses on embodiment and sexual subjectivity as well as migration and social exclusion.
Dean Keith Simonton is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. His research program largely concentrates on the historiometric study of genius, including major figures in the history of psychology. Among his honors are the William James Book Award, the George A. Miller Outstanding Article Award, the Sir Francis Galton Award, the Rudolf Arnheim Award, the Theoretical Innovation Prize in Personality and Social Psychology, the E. Paul Torrance Award, the Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Media Psychology Award, and the Robert S. Daniel Award for Four Year College/University Teaching. Most recently, he received the Joseph B. Gittler Award for “the most scholarly contribution to the philosophical foundation of psychological knowledge.”
Kathleen L. Slaney is an Associate Professor in the History, Quantitative, and Theoretical Psychology stream of the Department of Psychology at Simon Fraser University. Her current interests span a number of areas, including historical and conceptual analysis of methodological approaches within psychological science, philosophy of psychological and related sciences, and theoretical and applied psychometrics. In 2011, she was the recipient of the Sigmund Koch Award for Early Career Contributions to Psychology from the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (Division 24 of the American Psychological Association).
Brent D. Slife is a Professor of Psychology at Brigham Young University. He is the author of over 200 articles and eight books, and serves on the editorial boards of eight journals.
Jan Smedslund is Professor Emeritus, University of Oslo, Norway. He has done research on cognitive development in collaboration with, among others, Jean Piaget and Jerome Bruner. He developed the common-sense psychology of Fritz Heider into the axiomatic system of Psycho-Logic and introduced the concept of the pseudo-empirical. He has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is a licensed clinical psychologist with a varied and extensive practice.
Paul Stenner is Professor of Social Psychology at the Open University, UK. He has held lectureships in psychology at the Universities of East London and Bath and at University College, London, and he was Professor of Psychosocial Studies at the University of Brighton. He is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. A committed transdisciplinary researcher, he has published widely in psychology and in numerous other fields from geography through media studies to philosophy.
Anna Stetsenko is Professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY, with appointments in PhD Programs in Human Development and in Urban Education. She came to CUNY with years of experience at leading universities and research centers in Russia, Switzerland, and Germany. Her research is situated at the intersection of human development, social theory, and education including topics of subjectivity, collective agency, and personhood viewed through the lens of social change and activism.
Jeff Sugarman is Professor of Education and Psychology at Simon Fraser University. His primary interests are the psychology of personhood, critical educational psychology, and the application of historical ontology to psychological inquiry. He is a past President of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology and Associate Editor of the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. He is coauthor of Persons: Understanding Psychological Selfhood and Agency (Springer, 2010,, Psychology and the Question of Agency (SUNY Press, 2003), and The Psychology of Human Possibility and Constraint (SUNY Press, 1999).
Thomas Teo is Professor of Psychology at York University where he is a faculty member in the History and Theory of Psychology Program. He is editor of the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (2009–2014), editor of the Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology (Springer, 2014), coauthor of A Critical History and Philosophy of Psychology (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and President of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology (2013–2015).
Michael A. Tissaw earned his AB in Philosophy and PhD in General Psychology at Duke and Georgetown Universities, respectively. He is Associate Professor of Psychology at SUNY Potsdam, where he teaches developmental courses, research methods, and “Wittgenstein and Psychology.” He is interested in associating the philosophical analysis of psychological concepts with empirical theorizing and research in psychology. Among other publications, he is coauthor of the 2005 book Wittgenstein and Psychology: A Practical Guide (with Rom Harré).
Frederick J. Wertz, Professor at Fordham University, has written on philosophy, theory, methodology, and history of psychology. He is coauthor of Five Ways of Doing Qualitative Analysis: Phenomenological Psychology, Grounded Theory, Discourse Analysis, Narrative Research, and Intuitive Inquiry (Guilford Publications, 2011), former editor of the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology and Bulletin of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, former President of APA Divisions 24 and 32, President of the Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists, and the 2014 Rollo May Awardee, Society for Humanistic Psychology.
As with any scholarly project of this scope, we are indebted to a great many people. We wish to express our gratitude to the staff at Wiley Blackwell, especially Darren Reed, Olivia Evans, and Karen Shield for their support and guidance in bringing the project to completion. Thanks are owed to Holly Regan-Jones and Yassar Arafat for editorial and production assistance, Joan Wolfe for her help in formatting the manuscript, and Bob Leier for providing the wonderful artwork for the cover. We are grateful to many former and current students and colleagues who helped us to appreciate the need for a volume such as this one that explores and details approaches to theoretical and philosophical psychology in theoretical and methodological terms. We also wish to acknowledge the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology and the International Society for Theory and Psychology and their memberships for providing a scholarly home for psychologists who appreciate the value of theoretical and philosophical work in psychology and are committed to its pursuit. Last, but not least, we wish to express our deep appreciation to the authors of this volume for their shared enthusiasm for the project and inspired contributions.