A Suspicious Science: The Uses of Psychology

A Suspicious Science explores the uses and limits of psychology, offering an interdisciplinary multi-level form of psychology that may serve to orient the field. It synthesizes debates in psychology and philosophy concerning methodology and the nature of explanation with debates about its practical context. It suggests psychology provides us with myths and rituals that ground a particular sense of meaning and motivation in our lives.

Format: Hardback
Length: 280 pages
Publication date: 01 June 2023
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc

This comprehensive book delves into the multifaceted realm of psychology, encompassing a wide range of approaches and methods. From self-help to medication, therapy, and cognitive neuroscience, it explores the diverse applications and boundaries of psychology. Providing a systematic exploration of psychology's role in contemporary society, it enhances our understanding of the field's scope. Moreover, the book delves into the conceptual analysis of how science, truth, biology, mind, and meaning intersect and interact within the mind sciences. Drawing from history and anthropology, it articulates an interdisciplinary multi-level form of psychology that can serve as a guiding framework for the field. The book synthesizes debates in psychology and philosophy concerning methodology and the nature of explanation, as well as its practical context as a human science. Ultimately, it suggests that psychology offers us myths and rituals that provide a specific sense of meaning and motivation in our lives. By aligning cultural, emotional, and philosophical uses of psychology, the book clarifies a synoptic, humanistic model of the mind within the human sciences.

Dimension: 235 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780197513583