Book ID: CBB969375203

More Examples, Less Theory: Historical Studies of Writing Psychology (2019)

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Billig, Michael (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 292
Language: English

In his new book, Michael Billig uses psychology's past to argue that nowadays, when we write about the mind, we should use more examples and less theory. He provides a series of historical studies, analysing how key psychological writers used examples. Billig offers new insights about famous analysts of the mind, such as Locke, James, Freud, Tajfel and Lewin. He also champions unfairly forgotten figures, like the Earl of Shaftesbury and the eccentric Abraham Tucker. There is a cautionary chapter on Lacan, warning what can happen when examples are ignored. Marie Jahoda is praised as the ultimate example: a psychologist from the twentieth century with a social and rhetorical imagination fit for the twenty-first. More Examples, Less Theory is an easy-to-read book that will inform and entertain academics and their students. It will particularly appeal to those who enjoy the details of examples rather than the simplifications of big theory.

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Authors & Contributors
Agnes Bolinska
Martin, Joseph D.
Cynthia Wall
David M. Peña-Guzmán
Vander Meulen
Matten, Marc Andre
Concepts
Historical method
History of science, as a discipline
Case studies
Communication of scientific ideas
Historiography
Psychology
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
Early modern
20th century, late
20th century, early
19th century
Places
Europe
United States
North America
China
Institutions
European Society for the History of Science
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