Particulars and Universals in Clinical and Developmental Psychology

Meike Watzlawik, Sigmund Freud Privat Universität, GermanyAlina Kriebel Universität Osnabrück, GermanyJaan Valsiner, Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University, Denmark

• Preface: Subjectivity and Knowledge Construction: Particular Perspectives and Universal Principles.Section I: The Theorist: Building on Knowledge and Experience(s).Chapter 1. Relating to Dr. Werner: Past and Present, Roger Bibace.Chapter 2. The Big Difference: The Explanatory Power of the Undifferentiated and Differentiated, Sven Hroar Klempe.Chapter 3. World Hypotheses and Their Impact on Everyday Life, James D. Laird.Section II: The Practitioner: Psychoanalytic Defenses and Conceptions of Illness.Chapter 4. Children's Conceptions of Illness, Roger Bibace and Mary E. Walsh.Chapter 5. Korean Understanding of the Maum (Mind): Cultural Differences in Explaining the Causes of Illness, AeJa Jung.Chapter 6. One of Many Stories About Freud: My Story as a Freudian Clinician, Roger Bibace.Chapter 7. An Interpersonal Theory of Psychological Defense Mechanisms, Philip J. Rosenbaum.Section III: The Philosopher: What Is the Right Thing to Do?Chapter 8. Ethical and Legal Issues in Family Practice, Roger Bibace, Ronald J. Comer, Carolyn E. Cotsonas, and Cambridge Health Alliance.Chapter 9. Universal Principles? What Is the Right Thing to Do and Why? The Influence of Culturally Imprinted Moral Values on Medical Students' and Physicians' Decision-Making, Alina Kriebel and Saskia Celina Stöckigt.Chapter 10. Individualistic and Organizational Analyses of Informed Consent, Roger Bibace.Chapter 11. Therapeutic Misconceptions: When the Voices of Caring and Research Are Misconstrued as the Voice of Curing, Michael Bamberg and Nancy Budwig.Section IV: The Partner in Research: A Closer Look at the Researcher–Participant Relationship.Chapter 12. An Introduction to Partnership in Research: Changing the Researcher–Participant Relationship, Roger Bibace, Steven Dine Young, Leslie Rupert Herrenkohl, and Angela Wiley.Chapter 13. How Interests and Values Evolve (Sometimes Unpredictably): A Developmental Teleology of Research Encounters, Nikita A. Kharlamov, Aleksandra Kaszowska, and Roger Bibace.Chapter 14. Collaborative and Comprehensive Research in Bahia, Brazil: Reframing Researcher–Participant Relationships, Ana Cecília de Sousa Bastos.Chapter 15. Researcher–Participant Relationships in Different Settings: Theoretical and Methodological Issues Within the Framework of Semiotic-Cultural Constructivism, Lívia Mathias Simão, Danilo Silva Guimarães, Djalma Francisco Costa Lisboa de Freitas, Suara Bastos, and Hernán Sánchez Rios.Section V: The Friend and Mentor: Meeting Roger Bibace and the Authors.Chapter 16. Not a Mind Reader, Jaan Valsiner.Chapter 17. Encounters With Impact.About the Contributors.