Rearticulating Motives

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-43496-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 283 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

Reihe: Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences

This book presents a theory of motives that has evolved over decades in dialogue with academics and with practitioners. The key proposal is that of collectively cultivating meta-motives – rather than the ubiquitous recipes for manipulating self-regulation. Cultivating meta-motives can proceed through rearticulating motives. Such rearticulation engages with theories and practices of motivation and motives. First, this is a discussion of the psychologies of motivation, and a reflection of post-psychology as a way forward. Second, this discussion takes us back to fundamental problems with subjectivity, and with psychology, even critical psychology, as a way of addressing it. Third, out of this theoretical work come concepts that are put to work in understanding practices of modelling and cultivating motives – clinical, social work, and educational practices. In the first instance, as a critique of contemporary pragmatic practices, and then by rearticulating aesthetic practices as ways to expand and overcome those. Fourth, this has implications for the cultivation of the competence in care for motives, and for the place of theory in this competence. The book provides both a theoretical argument and a resource for those professionals in education, social work, and health who seek a qualitative understanding of what they do.

Zielgruppe

Graduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nissen, Morten

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Geschichte der Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I - Introduction.- 1. Framing.- 2. A Post-Psychology of Motivation.- Part II – From Needs to Meta-Motives.- 3. Needs Beyond Function.- 4. Re-Constituting Singular Situated Activities and Collectives.- 5. The Materiality of Meta-Motives.- Part III – A Critique of Pragmatic Modelling.- 6. The Post-Clinical Life of Signs.- Part IV – Aesthetics.- 7. Motive and Motif – Aesthetic Documentation.- 8. Poetic Seduction.- 9. Performing Motives.- Part V – Modelling, Competence, and Research.- 10. Modelling and the Competence in Care.- 11. The Role of Theory in Prototyping Motives.

Über Autor(innen)

Morten Nissen, Dr.Psych, PhD, is professor at the Graduate School of Education, Aarhus University, in Copenhagen, Denmark. He studies theories and practices involving subjectivity, collectivity, knowledges, standards, aesthetics, and motives, mostly as relevant to youth work, counselling, education and social work. Coming from critical psychology and science studies, he calls his approach a ‘post-psychology of care’, a contributory research aiming for sustainable ways to understand and re-/present ourselves. Among many other texts in English and Scandinavian, he published The Subjectivity of Participation at Palgrave in 2012.