Turning Psychology into Social Contextual Analysis

<p>This groundbreaking book shows how we can build a better understanding</p><p>of people by merging psychology with the social sciences. It is part of a</p><p>trilogy that offers a new way of doing psychology focusing on people’s</p><p>social and societal environments as determining their behaviour rather than</p><p>internal and individualistic attributions.</p><p>Putting the ‘social’ properly back into psychology Bernard Guerin turns</p><p>psychology inside out to offer a more integrated way of thinking about and</p><p>researching people. Going back 60 years of psychology’s history to the</p><p>‘cognitive revolution’ Guerin argues that psychology made a mistake and</p><p>demonstrates in fascinating new ways how to instead fully contextualize the</p><p>topics of psychology and merge with the social sciences. Covering perception</p><p>emotion language thinking and social behaviour the book seeks to</p><p>guide readers to observe how behaviours are shaped by their social cultural</p><p>economic patriarchal colonized historical and other contexts. Our brain</p><p>neurophysiology and body are still involved as important interfaces but</p><p>human actions do not originate inside of people so we will never fi nd the</p><p>answers in our neurophysiology. Replacing the internal origins of behaviour</p><p>with external social contextual analyses the book even argues that thinking</p><p>is not done by you ‘in your head’ but arises from our external social cultural</p><p>and discursive worlds.</p><p>Offering a refreshing new approach to better understand how humans</p><p>operate in their social cultural economic discursive and societal worlds</p><p>rather than inside their heads and how we might have to rethink our</p><p>approaches to neuropsychology as well this is fascinating reading for</p><p>students in psychology and the social sciences.</p>