Are you looking for some new ways to think about human psychology, outside the box?
Want some new ways to think about ‘mental health’, outside the medical box?
Tired of the abstract, theoretical explanations of psychology that don’t translate to actions?
Need some better ways to include social science knowledge about humans into a new psychology?
Try these!
Can you imagine that everything people do, say, think and feel is shaped directly by engaging with our many environmental and social contexts? Treating humans for once as actually part of their environments and not some magic animal that is separated from their environment and the world.
For current psychology, however, people are said to only engage with metaphorical ‘internal’ environments or brains events, and everything we do somehow originates hidden in there. And the hundred years of social science research on humans is ignored.
But what if all that we do and think originated out in our worlds, and what we call the ‘internal’ human is merely language and conversations which were also shaped by engaging in our external discursive, cultural and societal environments?
This exciting new book series explores human behaviour as directly engaged with the world, it is about developing the next generation of ways to understand what people do, say, think and feel.
To achieve this, you must understand all the diverse contexts of resources, social relationships, economics, culture, discourses, colonization, patriarchy, society, and the opportunities afforded by our birth contexts. Even language and thinking arise from our external social and discursive contexts, and the ‘internal’ and brain metaphors will disappear as psychology becomes merged with the social sciences. The brain does not originate our behaviour even though it participates.
The series includes how to rethink psychology by integrating the social sciences as a new domain, reinventing research methods for doing contextual research, rethinking what is currently called ‘mental health’ (which is neither mental nor health), a contextual exploration of therapy itself and what it should look like in the future, the social worlds of poverty, discursive analysis in context, and much more.
Find out more about this series here: https://www.routledge.com/Exploringthe-Environmental-and-Social-Foundations-of-Human-Behaviour/bookseries/EESF
How to Rethink Psychology: New Metaphors for Understanding People and Their Behavior: Volume 1
How to Rethink Human Behavior: A Practical Guide to Social Contextual Analysis: Volume 2
How to Rethink Mental Illness: The Human Contexts Behind the Labels: Volume 3
Turning Psychology into Social Contextual Analysis: Volume 4
Turning Psychology into a Social Science: Volume 5
Turning Mental Health into Social Action: Volume 6
Reimagining Therapy through Social Contextual Analyses: Finding New Ways to Support People in Distress: Volume 7
Reimagining Poverty Through Social Contextual Analyses: Finding New Ways to Understand “Getting By”: Volume 8
Contextualising Eating Disorders: The Hidden Social Contexts of Unusual Eating: Volume 9
Doing Contextual Research: How to Find out About Yourself and Other People: Volume 10
Spanish and Portuguese translations:
Cómo repensar la psicología: Nuevas metáforas para entender a las personas y su conducta. Madrid: Ediciones Psara. (Spanish translation by Dr. Luis Valero Aguayo)
Como repensar la salud mental: Los contextos humanos que hay tras las eiiquetas. Madrid: Ediciones Psara. (Spanish translation by Dr. Luis Valero Aguayo)
Como repensar a comportamento humano. São Paulo: Hogrefe. (Portuguese translation by Dr. Guilherme Bergo Leugi)
Reimaginar la terapia a través del análisis social y contextual: Buscando nueves formas de apoyar a las personas que sufram. Madrid: Ediciones Psara. (Spanish translation by Dr. Luis Valero Aguayo)
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