Ebook: Psychology in black and white: the project of a theory-driven science

It is a theoretical synthesis that is at the level of innovations that Sigmund Freud, James Mark Baldwin, William Stern, Kurt Lewin, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky and Jan Smedslund have brought into psychology over the past century. Here we can observe a creative solution to integrating cultural psychology with the rich traditions of psychodynamic perspectives, without repeating the conceptual impasses in which many psychoanalytic perspectives have become caught."--Page 4 of cover;Part 1. Microphysics of sensemaking. The meaning of our discontent -- The semio-dynamic model of sensemaking (SDMS) -- Microdynamics of sensemaking -- The semiotic big bang -- Part 2. Theoretical explorations. The contexuality of mind -- Beyond subject and object -- Affect and desire as semiotic processes -- Exercises of semiotic reframing -- Part 2. A new methodological approach. Field dependency and abduction -- The modeling of sensemaking -- Models and strategies of empirical investigation -- Studies of sensemaking