Toward a Holistic Developmental Psychology

Download or read book Toward a Holistic Developmental Psychology written by Seymour Wapner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1983, the main aim of this volume was to suggest new ways of conceptualizing human development and new domains of theorizing and engaging in practice for those who were vitally concerned with the nature and value of human beings. Toward this goal, colleagues and students of the later Heinz Werner, believing that Werner provided the schema for such a vision, here present modifications, extensions, and elaborations of his insights concerning the nature of development. The Wernerian approach, in origin and aim, is concerned with the development of the whole human being. The papers here were intended only as a stimulus to provoke others as well as the contributors themselves to a new, yet old approach, to human experience, thought, and action. Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context.