James Rose Mapping Psychic Reality (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

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Title: Mapping Psychic Reality
Condition: New
Subtitle: Triangulation, Communication, and Insight
Author: James Rose
Contributor: James Rose (Edited by)
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9781855758148
ISBN: 9781855758148
Publisher: Karnac Books
Genre: Society & Culture
Release Date: 12/31/2011
Description: This book is about how we can deepen our understanding of subjectivity through the use of the concept of triangulation. Fundamentally, this book seeks to address the question of how we can be objective about subjectivity. If psychology, as a scientific discipline, is concerned with the study of human experience, which is essentially subjective; then we are faced with the problem of how apply the scientific method, as it is commonly understood. If experience is essentially unique to the experiencer, then there seems to be a basic incompatibility with the scientific method. As currently practised, this method searches for psychic phenomena, which can be validly measured e.g. intelligence; showing a range of individual differences. But this does not enable us to examine individual experience. An individual\'s experience seems to become impenetrable because generalisation across different individuals\' experience entails the loss of individuality in the generalisation. Thus, in using the scientific method as it usually understood, we lose the very matter we are trying to study. This leaves us with the question of how we are going to advance our inquiry.
Language: English
Item Height: 230mm
Item Length: 147mm
Series: Psychoanalytic Ideas Series
Release Year: 2011

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