Heinz Werner

Bento Selau, Ph.D., is a Professor of Educational Psychology at the Federal University of Pampa, Brazil, and holds a Research Productivity Scholarship from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). His research focuses on the themes of educational psychology, orthogenetic principle, cultural-historical psychology, death education, learning, and development. He is the author of scientific articles and books in these fields. Pablo Fossa is director of the Cognition & Culture Laboratory (C&C) of Instituto de Bienestar Socioemocional (IBEM) at the Faculty of Psychology, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile. He received a PhD degree in Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. His doctoral thesis dealt with the expressive dimension of inner language in human experience. He did a postdoctoral fellowship financed by the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT) of Chile, with a research project on thought trajectories from a microgenetic orientation. His lines of research are related to Cognition, Cultural Psychology and Phenomenology. He is an active member of the Society for Historical Cultural Activity Research (ISCAR), the International Society for Dialogical Self (ISDS), and the International Society for Theoretical Psychology (ISTP). He is the editor of the books Latin American Advances in Subjectivity and Development: Through Vygotsky Route (Springer, 2021), New Perspectives on Inner Speech (Springer, 2022), Inner Speech, Culture & Education (Springer, 2022), Affectivity & Learning (Springer, 2023) and Collected Papers on Inner Speech (IAP, 2024). Currently, he is PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Navarra, Spain.

• Chapter 1 Heinz Werner: Science Often Forgets its Own Past.- Part 1 The Man Behind his Legacy.- Chapter 2 Development as Metamorphosis: The Romantic Roots of Werner’s Organismic Theory.- Chapter 3 Heinz Werner: A pioneer of Cognitive/Developmental Phenomenology.- Chapter 4 Werner and Kaplan – Expanding the Dynamic Dimension.- Chapter 5 Heinz Werner, Action and Personality: A Critical Personalist Revision of his Theory of Integration and Differentiation.- Part 2 Expanding Werner.- Chapter 6 Heinz Werner’s Organismic-developmental Framework: Why a Wonderful Idea Went Wrong and How to Fix It.- Chapter 7 The Symbolic Construction of Intimacy: Orthogenetic Development in Couples’ Relationships.- Chapter 8 Heinz Werner’s Developmental Psychology and Hans Loewald’s Psychoanalytic Developments. The Effort to Understand Human Psychic Growth.- Chapter 9 The Development of the Child in Perspective and Early Childhood Education: Contributions of Corporeality Based on the Axes of Play and Interaction.- Chapter 10 Werner and Luria on Perception and Language: Cultural Forms and Cognitive Structures.- Chapter 11 A concept of Additional Language Literacy Development (ALLD): Elaborations on Bronckart, Werner and Vygotsky.- Chapter 12 New Ways of Understanding Learning in the Light of Heinz Werner and Lev Vygotsky.- Part 3 Final Comments.- Chapter 13 Werner’s development principle: Forgotten, But Not Quite.- Chapter 14 Epilogue: A future Still Ahead.