Towards psychologies of liberation

Towards The Liberation Of Managed Human Life.1

Traditional critiques of the sciences and social sciences from within process studies have argued that since they are premised on Newtonian reductionist conceptualisations of thought for the purpose of simplification, these disciplines have little to offer in terms of furthering the meaningful development of life in the 21 Century. What I shall be doing in this paper is demonstrating that such ...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender psychologies

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) psychology is the current term used to refer to what was previously known as the affirmative field of lesbian and gay psychology, which developed from the late 1960s onwards. This field of psychology is closely aligned to the psychology of sexualities, but with a specific focus on non-heterosexual and/or non-gender normative people. The term LGBT p...

Scale and Multiple Psychologies of Space

The importance of scale to the psychology of space (perception, thinking, memory, behavior) is discussed. It is maintained that scale has an important influence on how humans treat spatial information and that several qualitatively distinct scale classes of space exist. Past systems of classification are reviewed and some novel terms and distinctions are introduced. Empirical evidence for the n...

Best of British? Contributions to Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Psychologies and Psychotherapies: Review of British Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Psychologies:

Two psychologies of perception and the prospect of their synthesis

Two traditions have had a great impact on the theoretical and experimental research of perception. One tradition is statistical, stretching from Fechner’s enunciation of psychophysics in 1860 to the modern view of perception as statistical decision making. The other tradition is phenomenological, from Brentano’s ‘‘empirical standpoint’’ of 1874 to the Gestalt movement and the modern work on per...