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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"History of Psychology"”.
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The relationship between ministry praxis and spiritual development milestones in the lives of children
The assumption of the study was that children are capable of an intimate and real relationship with God. The question that is often asked is, "How does the church best help children to grow in that relationship?" The lack of an agreed upon definition and understanding of spirituality and the need …
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Boundary -work in United States psychology: A study of three interdisciplinary programs
… three interdisciplinary programs---evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and chaos theory---contributed to changing U.S. psychology's disciplinary boundaries. These interdisciplinary scientists brought about this change through their conceptual, material, and social practices. Psychologists …
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Faith-Based Counseling Versus Traditional Psychotherapy: A Phenomenological Evaluation of African American Protestant Experiences
… study was designed to evaluate the experiences of African American Christian adult clients within traditional psychotherapy and faith-based counseling settings. Research has shown various therapist/counselor identities affect Christian African American clients, and that Christians as well as …
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Truth as Relationship: The Psychology of E. Graham Howe
Dr. Eric Graham Howe (d. 1975) was one of the most important psychologists in early 20th century Britain. Yet, for the most part, his work is relatively unknown. Howe was unjustly dismissed by the psychoanalytic community of his time. Howe was not only left out of the history of psychoanalysis, but …
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Demystifying A Sexual Perversion: An Existential Reading of Sadomasochism and Erich Fromm's Call to Love
Despite the lack of clinical evidence suggesting that sex is the primary passion behind sadomasochism and critiques which have debunked the idea of gendered polarities as intrinsic to its nature, the popular imagination of sadomasochism remains as a gendered sexual perversion. This dissertation …
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The Cape Town Child Guidance Clinic, 1935-1971 : an historical analysis
The study traced certain themes in the history of the Child Guidance Clinic during the period 1935 to 1971, in order to support the following hypotheses: (1) The establishment and development of the Clinic corresponded to the rise and growth of clinical psychology in South Africa. (2). The …
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Making Sense in Nineteenth Century Britain: Affinities of the Philosophy of Mind, c.1820-1860
… century using a multivalent structural analysis of ideas and practices within traditions established by Hume, Hartley, and Reid. While these traditions were propagated into the nineteenth century by such figures as Thomas Brown, James Mill, Sir William Hamilton, and Alexander Bain, this later …
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Social Production of Intellectual Disability and the Mechanics of Moral Exclusion: Past, Present, and Future
… relationship or whether he was the victim of sexual assault without ever allowing him to express his desires and lived experiences. This project is an attempt to explore a theoretical, historical explanation for how humanity is denied in some bodies, how humanity was denied in the body of …
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Transitions in the Mental Health Field's System of Professions from WWII until the Present: The Case of Dubville
A case study of one mental health field in a medium-sized, steel-belt city over a 50 year period is presented. Through interviews and archive data, the narrative elucidates the transitions that occurred in regards to which professions are dominant, and which services count as mental health …
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Forging a Social Science of Prevention in the United States, 1950-2005
This thesis offers a critical account of the rise of “prevention science,” a field that coalesced in the United States during the 1990s. Prevention scientists borrow methods from public health and evidence-based medicine to design preventative interventions for a range of problems they deem …