A Suspicious Science
The Uses of Psychology
Published on 17. March 2023
288 pages
978-0-19-751359-0 (ISBN)
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From self-help to medication, therapy, and cognitive neuroscience, this book traces the uses and limits of psychology. Offering a systematic exploration of the ways in which psychology is used in contemporary society, it refines our understanding of the extent of the field. In addition to conceptual analysis of how science, truth, biology, mind, and meaning intersect and interact in the mind sciences, A Suspicious Science draws from history and anthropology to articulate an interdisciplinary multi-level form of psychology that may serve to orient the field. The book synthesizes debates in psychology and philosophy concerning methodology and the nature of explanation with debates about its practical context as a human science. Ultimately, it suggests psychology provides us myths and rituals that ground a particular sense of meaning and motivation in our lives. By aligning cultural, emotional, and philosophical uses of psychology, this book clarifies a synoptic, humanistic model of the mind within the human sciences.
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Rami Gabriel is the co-author of The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition (2019) and the author of Why I Buy: Self, Taste, and Consumer Society in America (2013). He publishes research on the philosophy of psychology, affective neuroscience, and consciousness studies. Gabriel is Associate Professor of Psychology at Columbia College Chicago.
Content
Preface
Introduction
Part One
Chapter 1. How to fit the Mind in a Lab
Chapter 2. The Pragmatic Use of Metaphor
Chapter 3. Contemporary Empirical Psychology
Interlude Mythology, Belief, and Superstition
Part Two
Chapter 4. Popular Psychology
Chapter 5. Discursive uses
Chapter 6. Drugs and Agency
Chapter 7. Art and Reflexivity
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
