Brent D Slife
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4239661 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Brent D Slife |
| PRENOMES | Brent D |
| SOBRENOME | Slife |
| ASSINATURA | SLIFE B D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Brigham Young University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2676-6488 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Against methodological confinement
Routledge International Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
Hermeneutic Moral Realism in Psychology
The Clash of Theism and Liberal Individualism in Psychotherapy
The present article extends the work of Allen Bergin by illustrating the therapeutic clash of liberal individualism and theism in an actual therapy case. As many scholars have demonstrated, liberal individualism has long been the “disguised ideology” at the assumptive base of many psychotherapy theories and practices. The case shows how the lead author was an “agent of culture,” to use Bergin’s terms, in his therapy with a Christian woman. It exp…
Theorizing inquiry in the moral space of practice
Moral realism has been advanced as a central theme in contemporary hermeneutic thought. From this standpoint, participation in cultural practices is made possible and meaningful by ontologically real moral goods and reference points. Cultural practices thus constitute a moral referential totality for human action. This article suggests that these and related hermeneutic insights offer a unique perspective for taking account of practical involveme…
The rigorous humanist
Joseph F. Rychlak died on April 16, 2013 at the age of 84. As the title of this memorial indicates, he was known to many of us as a rigorous humanist not only for the particular brand of his profes
Naturalism, Psychology, and Religious Experience
Questioning the Presumption of Naturalism in the Social Sciences
Virtue ethics in practice
Conceptualizing Religious Practices in Psychological Research
Religious Implications of Western Personality Theory
Method Decisions
Including God in Psychotherapy
The authors first attempt to conceptualize theistic psychotherapy by discussing the relationship between theism and naturalism. Many psychologists have assumed that naturalism and theism can be combined in various ways, so the authors review the more prominent of these combinations at the outset. They argue not only that these mixtures are “weak” (i.e., they restrain God in some way) but also that they ultimately assume naturalism is incompatible…
Problematic Ontological Underpinnings of Positive Psychology
In this article, we contend that many of the problems delineated in this special issue on positive psychology stem from an unexamined philosophical premise—its ontology. The world of `ontology' is vast and somewhat ill defined, but here we mean simply assumptions of what is ultimately real and fundamental, especially regarding the self. We first clarify and compare two major ontologies of the self, one that we argue underlies and spawns problems …
Thinking through Positive Psychology
Positive psychology offers a needed corrective to deficiencies in mainstream psychology. However, there have been relatively few attempts to systematically analyze and assess this movement. This special issue examines the conceptual underpinnings and guiding ideals of positive psychology. Generally, these articles conclude that positive psychologists have not dealt adequately with the challenge of rendering credible and illuminating accounts of h…
Is evidence-based practice diverse enough? Philosophy of science considerations
In its policy rationale for evidence-based practice in psychology (EBPP), the APA Presidential Task Force on Evidence-Based Practice claims to have constituted itself with "scientists and practitioners from a wide range of perspectives and traditions, reflecting the diverse perspectives within the field" (p. 273). We applaud this attention to diversity but contend that an entire perspective of the debate was omitted in the Task Force's newly appr…
Philosophical Issues in Psychology and Religion
The relationship between psychology and religion has been an issue of lively discussion over the past century. From the work of psychological pioneers like William James down to the present, this relationship has been conceptualized in different ways, and many debates have taken place about the superiority of one approach over another. The articles in this issue are intended as a contribution toward understanding the philosophical difficulties be…
Are Psychology'S Main Methods Biased against the Worldview of Many Religious People
This article examines some of the more problematic aspects of recent efforts to integrate psychology and religion. Specifically, many religious people—psychology's main consumer and client—make different assumptions than many psychologists about human nature and the world. This article attempts to explicate many of these conflicting assumptions, particularly as they affect psychological methods. Therapeutic and experimental methods are frequently…
Psychological Method and the Activity of God
We are gratified by the serious and substantive comments on the four-article argument that begins this special issue. We are especially pleased to have Stanton Jones (this issue) involved in this dialogue, whose comment we are to focus upon here. His work has been seminal to the integration project, and, true to form, his comment in this special issue poses intriguing challenges to both our collective argument and our particular part in that argu…
Conclusion
As we look back over the articles, comments, and replies of this special issue, we are struck by two themes that appear to garner the most agreement among the various authors and involve the most important implications for the psychology of religion. The first theme is the need to respect the unique worldviews of today's religions and treat them as equal partners in dialogue. Too often, we believe, the and scientism of psychology are viewed as ne…
The Virtues of International Theoretical Discourse
This article reviews the published proceedings of the 1993 and 1995 conferences of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology, namely Trends and Issues of Theoretical Psychology and Problems of Theoretical Psychology. The international diversity of the authors gives rise to a broader treatment of relevant psychological issues and their solutions. The topics covered in these volumes demonstrate fine scholarship and raise many provocative…
The automaticity of interpreting Automaticity
The automaticity of interpreting Automaticity
Modern and Postmodern Approaches to the Free Will/Determinism Dilemma in Psychotherapy
Although modernists in psychology have attempted to cast the free will/determinism dilemma as either settled or irrelevant, it continues to enfeeble theory, therapy, and practice. The primary reason for this continuing enfeeblement is the modern dualistic framework for this dilemma: Either the will (choices, decisions, motives) is dependent on antecedent conditions and thus is determined or the will is independent of antecedent conditions and thu…
Examining the Relationship between Religious Spirituality and Psychological Science
Scientific interest in religious spirituality and mental health has increased dramatically. However, many researchers have tended to ignore the historic incompatibility between spirituality and traditional science. A review of the spirituality research suggests that important themes of this historic incompatibility persist in contemporary theories of spirituality. Yet, many spirituality researchers have proceeded as if this incompatibility does n…
Examining the Relationship between Religious Spirituality and Psychological Science
Scientific interest in religious spirituality and mental health has increased dramatically. However, many researchers have tended to ignore the historic incompatibility between spirituality and traditional science. A review of the spirituality research suggests that important themes of this historic incompatibility persist in contemporary theories of spirituality. Yet, many spirituality researchers have proceeded as if this incompatibility does n…
Existential and Cognitive Psychology Contrasting Views of Consciousness
Cognitive psychology is considered by some theorists to have subsumed "third force" views of consciousness. The purpose of the present article is to show that the cybernetic conceptions of cognitive psychology do not explain the qualities of consciousness considered fundamental to existentialists. It is our contention that feedback principles are inadequate to explain self-awareness, volition, and futurity. The core of this inadequacy lies in cog…
Method Decisions
Modern and Postmodern Approaches to the Free Will/Determinism Dilemma in Psychotherapy
Although modernists in psychology have attempted to cast the free will/determinism dilemma as either settled or irrelevant, it continues to enfeeble theory, therapy, and practice. The primary reason for this continuing enfeeblement is the modern dualistic framework for this dilemma: Either the will (choices, decisions, motives) is dependent on antecedent conditions and thus is determined or the will is independent of antecedent conditions and thu…
Theorizing inquiry in the moral space of practice
Moral realism has been advanced as a central theme in contemporary hermeneutic thought. From this standpoint, participation in cultural practices is made possible and meaningful by ontologically real moral goods and reference points. Cultural practices thus constitute a moral referential totality for human action. This article suggests that these and related hermeneutic insights offer a unique perspective for taking account of practical involveme…
Conceptualizing Religious Practices in Psychological Research
Is evidence-based practice diverse enough? Philosophy of science considerations
In its policy rationale for evidence-based practice in psychology (EBPP), the APA Presidential Task Force on Evidence-Based Practice claims to have constituted itself with "scientists and practitioners from a wide range of perspectives and traditions, reflecting the diverse perspectives within the field" (p. 273). We applaud this attention to diversity but contend that an entire perspective of the debate was omitted in the Task Force's newly appr…
Naturalism, Psychology, and Religious Experience
Questioning the Presumption of Naturalism in the Social Sciences
The primacy of affective judgment from a teleological perspective
The primacy of affective judgment from a teleological perspective
Role of affective assessment in modeling aggressive behavior
This study examines the role of affective assessment, a self-generated influence in learning acquisition, in Bandura's original modeling-of-aggression procedure. Thirty-two first- and second-grade children (both sexes) rated toys and televised acts of aggression against an inflated doll according to their personal affective preference. A matched control group of 32 children was yoked to the affective preferences of the experimental subjects. Cont…
Telic and Mechanistic Explanations of Mind and Meaningfulness
Two traditions of personality theorizing, teleology and mechanism, are contrasted on their views of mind and the pivotal cognitive phenomenon of meaningfulness A major, albeit less well known, distinction between these traditions involves the assumption of time The fact that contemporary cognitive models rely on time (e g, temporal sequences or past events) places them firmly in the mechanistic tradition of personality theorizing Telic implicatio…
Interaction of Dogmatism and Rhetorical Structure in Text Recall
Recent theory suggests that skilled readers attempt to identify the rhetorical structure of a passage and then use it to encode and retrieve text information. While a comparison structure normally yields more recall than a collection structure, we reasoned that rote learning-oriented high dogmatics may recall better with a simple collection structure and conceptual learning-oriented low dogmatics may recall better with the more organized comparis…
Existential and Cognitive Psychology Contrasting Views of Consciousness
Cognitive psychology is considered by some theorists to have subsumed "third force" views of consciousness. The purpose of the present article is to show that the cybernetic conceptions of cognitive psychology do not explain the qualities of consciousness considered fundamental to existentialists. It is our contention that feedback principles are inadequate to explain self-awareness, volition, and futurity. The core of this inadequacy lies in cog…
What's Behind the Research? Discovering Hidden Assumptions in the Behavioral Sciences
This book explores the main assumptions upon which behavioural science theories are based, offers alternatives and challenges the reader to serious critical thought
Information and Time
The conceptual roots of the modern notion of information are traced. One of the most prominent of these roots stems from an unlikely source-western views of time. This root is perhaps the main reason for the wide appeal and explanatory power of our current conception of information, particularly in cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, however, this appeal and power have led many theorists and researchers to overlook pr…
Parallels between multiculturalism and disunity in psychology
Toward a theoretical psychology
Toward a theoretical psychology
Parallels between multiculturalism and disunity in psychology
Theoretical psychology as a subdiscipline
Theoretical issues in psychology
Examining the Relationship between Religious Spirituality and Psychological Science
Scientific interest in religious spirituality and mental health has increased dramatically. However, many researchers have tended to ignore the historic incompatibility between spirituality and traditional science. A review of the spirituality research suggests that important themes of this historic incompatibility persist in contemporary theories of spirituality. Yet, many spirituality researchers have proceeded as if this incompatibility does n…
The Virtues of International Theoretical Discourse
This article reviews the published proceedings of the 1993 and 1995 conferences of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology, namely Trends and Issues of Theoretical Psychology and Problems of Theoretical Psychology. The international diversity of the authors gives rise to a broader treatment of relevant psychological issues and their solutions. The topics covered in these volumes demonstrate fine scholarship and raise many provocative…
The automaticity of interpreting Automaticity
The automaticity of interpreting Automaticity
Modern and Postmodern Approaches to the Free Will/Determinism Dilemma in Psychotherapy
Although modernists in psychology have attempted to cast the free will/determinism dilemma as either settled or irrelevant, it continues to enfeeble theory, therapy, and practice. The primary reason for this continuing enfeeblement is the modern dualistic framework for this dilemma: Either the will (choices, decisions, motives) is dependent on antecedent conditions and thus is determined or the will is independent of antecedent conditions and thu…
Philosophical Issues in Psychology and Religion
The relationship between psychology and religion has been an issue of lively discussion over the past century. From the work of psychological pioneers like William James down to the present, this relationship has been conceptualized in different ways, and many debates have taken place about the superiority of one approach over another. The articles in this issue are intended as a contribution toward understanding the philosophical difficulties be…
Are Psychology'S Main Methods Biased against the Worldview of Many Religious People
This article examines some of the more problematic aspects of recent efforts to integrate psychology and religion. Specifically, many religious people—psychology's main consumer and client—make different assumptions than many psychologists about human nature and the world. This article attempts to explicate many of these conflicting assumptions, particularly as they affect psychological methods. Therapeutic and experimental methods are frequently…
Psychological Method and the Activity of God
We are gratified by the serious and substantive comments on the four-article argument that begins this special issue. We are especially pleased to have Stanton Jones (this issue) involved in this dialogue, whose comment we are to focus upon here. His work has been seminal to the integration project, and, true to form, his comment in this special issue poses intriguing challenges to both our collective argument and our particular part in that argu…
Conclusion
As we look back over the articles, comments, and replies of this special issue, we are struck by two themes that appear to garner the most agreement among the various authors and involve the most important implications for the psychology of religion. The first theme is the need to respect the unique worldviews of today's religions and treat them as equal partners in dialogue. Too often, we believe, the and scientism of psychology are viewed as ne…
Is evidence-based practice diverse enough? Philosophy of science considerations
In its policy rationale for evidence-based practice in psychology (EBPP), the APA Presidential Task Force on Evidence-Based Practice claims to have constituted itself with "scientists and practitioners from a wide range of perspectives and traditions, reflecting the diverse perspectives within the field" (p. 273). We applaud this attention to diversity but contend that an entire perspective of the debate was omitted in the Task Force's newly appr…
Problematic Ontological Underpinnings of Positive Psychology
In this article, we contend that many of the problems delineated in this special issue on positive psychology stem from an unexamined philosophical premise—its ontology. The world of `ontology' is vast and somewhat ill defined, but here we mean simply assumptions of what is ultimately real and fundamental, especially regarding the self. We first clarify and compare two major ontologies of the self, one that we argue underlies and spawns problems …
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