More Examples, Less Theory Historical Studies of Writing Psychology

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Author
Michael Billig
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pages
292 pages
ISBN
978-1108498418
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Description

In his new book, More Examples, Less Theory: Historical Studies of Writing Psychology, Michael Billig uses psychology’s past to argue that nowadays, when we write about the mind, we should use more examples and less theory. He provides a series of historical studies, analyzing how key psychological writers used examples. Billig offers new insights about famous analysts of the mind, such as Locke, James, Freud, Tajfel, and Lewin. He also champions unfairly forgotten figures, like the Earl of Shaftesbury and the eccentric Abraham Tucker. There is a cautionary chapter on Lacan, warning what can happen when examples are ignored. Marie Jahoda is praised as the ultimate example: a psychologist from the twentieth century with a social and rhetorical imagination fit for the twenty-first. More Examples, Less Theory is an easy-to-read book that will inform and entertain academics and their students. It will particularly appeal to those who enjoy the details of examples rather than the simplifications of big theory.