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Die Revolte der Psychologie (Бунтът на психологията)
Psychology’s rebellion

Author(s): Krasimira Yonkova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Psychology, Sociology, Personality Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Methodology and research technology
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: critical psychology; transformation of the paradigm; transpersonal mental regulators

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the idea of the critical psychological approach in order to reformulate the theoretical perspectives of traditional western psychology. Grounded is the necessity of cardinal methodological transformation of the conventional paradigm by focusing on transpersonal mental regulators of thinking and behavior, both individually and collectively. The fundamental difference is shown which characterizes critics of ethnic, political and historical rationalism. Explained are the interpretetional mechanisms of massive social, political and historycal facts in the discourse of a more modern and authentic crosscultural psychology.

  • Issue Year: 24/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 65-74
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: German