| Description |
1 online resource (235 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 The general theory of psychological intervention -- 1 One hundred thousand, no one or one? -- One hundred thousand -- No one -- One -- 2 The object of psychology as a metatheoretical construct -- Phenomenon, process, and fundamental dynamic -- Why make things complicated? -- 3 Scientific knowledge and professional action in psychology -- Intervention as practical knowledge -- 2 Theory of the object -- 1 What theory of meaning for psychology? -- The centrality of meaning |
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The meaning of meaning -- An alternative. Peirce's triadic theory -- 2 Basic features of sensemaking -- The representation of sensemaking -- 3 Meaning and sensemaking as the object of psychology -- Individual and interpersonal relationships -- Local social contexts -- Macro-social contexts -- 4 Meaning and subjectivity -- The constitution of the content of experience -- The signs' value of life -- The semiotic nature of affects -- Affective semiosis and subjectivity -- 5 Mind and culture -- Culture as a field of variability -- The affective foundation of the normativity of culture |
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The hierarchical organization of semiotic resources -- 6 Meaning and social context -- The premises of sense. The semiotic nature of the regulation of social action -- The performativity of meaning. The Matthew effect -- Sensemaking and action -- 7 An aside. Information and meaning -- 3 Theory of the change -- 1 Preliminary notes for an epistemology of change -- A terminological premise -- Map of antecedents versus theory of the change -- 2 The black box -- Skirting around . . . -- . . . or opening it -- Considerations on the margin -- 3 Is it worth opening the black box? |
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4 Configurations of change. A typology -- Forms of meaning -- Forms and levels of abstraction of meaning. A typology -- The extension of semiotic modification -- A structural model of semiotic change -- 5 The mechanics of change -- Background -- At the heart of the dynamic -- Semiotic change is the way of stabilizing the premises of sense -- Summary -- 6 Catalyzers of change -- The tendency to simplify through abstraction -- Simplification and social bonding. The Pentecost effect -- The other side of the coin: semiotic innovation -- Primary scenario -- Secondary scenario -- Intermediate scenario |
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4 Theory of the action -- 1 Vectors of intervention -- Primary scenario vectors. The enhancement of meaning -- Secondary scenario vectors. The didacticization of meaning -- Intermediate scenario vectors. The deconstruction of meaning -- To summarize -- 2 General principles and devices of the intervention -- The setting -- Intervention as organization -- Reporting -- The validation of the intervention -- 3 The idiographic and abductive character of the intervention -- Idiographic and nomothetic. A misleading juxtaposition -- Modelling the link between dynamics and event |
| Summary |
Foundations of the Psychological Intervention presents a new General Theory for Psychological Intervention (GTPI), delving into how its methodology can be applied across diverse psychological contexts. Guided by the GTPI framework, it addresses the prevailing fragmentation evident in various domains of psychology |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Abduction and intervention |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cordella, Barbara
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| ISBN |
9781040013236 |
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1040013236 |
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