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Studies of Life Positioning: A New Sociocultural Approach to Psychobiography

Studies of Life Positioning: A New Sociocultural Approach to Psychobiography

Hardcover

Series: Advances in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

CognitionGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 1032608854
ISBN13: 9781032608853
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 21 2024
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book illustrates how Life Positioning Analysis can be used as a theoretical and methodological approach to sociocultural psychobiography.

Life positioning psychobiography studies lives as they unfold within a world of interactivity. It recognizes and portrays us as social beings embedded and developing within our life relationships and circumstances and striving to make something of our lives. Here, Jack Martin presents both single-subject and dual-subject studies of social psychologist Stanley Milgram, former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, existential humanist Ernest Becker, American heiress and child advocate Dorothy Burlingham and her life partner, renowned psychoanalyst Anna Freud, and indigenous athlete Jim Thorpe and his college coach Glenn Pop Warner. These case studies provide vividly memorable demonstrations of how we are positioned by circumstances and others, and come to position ourselves as socioculturally constituted, psychological persons. In so doing, they offer a systematic framework for studying the lives of people that shows sociocultural and social psychological development without resorting to mentalistic theories, concepts, and interpretations.

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