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List of Figures and Tables | |
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Foreword | |
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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction: A Better Way to Help by Reinventing Psychology | |
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Turning Mainstream Psychology Upside Down | |
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The Emergence of the Pragmatic Paradigm from Postmodernism | |
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Supporting the Beleaguered Practitioner | |
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Two Faces of Psychology: "Nature" versus "Culture" | |
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A Reader's Guide | |
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History | |
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1600 to the Early 1960s: Psychology and Positivism--A Marriage Made in Enlightenment Heaven | |
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Origins: 1600 to 1879 | |
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Pendulum Swings in History | |
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Psychology Comes of Age: 1879 to the Early 1960s | |
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The 1960s and Beyond: The Postmodern Invasion | |
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Psychologists Proliferate | |
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Psychological Topics Proliferate | |
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Psychological Methods Proliferate | |
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Philosophy | |
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"Postpositivism": Revolution within the Family | |
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Targeted Hits | |
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Expanding the Critique | |
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The End of Science? | |
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The Dialectic: Putting It All Together | |
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The Players | |
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Not So Fast | |
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Boiling It Down to Three Paradigms | |
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Transcending the Dialectic: The Emergence of Postmodern Pragmatism | |
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The Family Tree | |
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Pragmatists Weigh In | |
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A Balinese Cockfight and Schizophrenia | |
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On to the Case Study Method | |
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Method | |
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The Pragmatic Case Study: Psychology's Tool for Enhancing Human Services | |
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Addressing Psychosocial Problems | |
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Measuring the Bottom Line: Program Evaluation | |
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Collaborating with Clients: Community Psychology | |
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"What Works and Why We Have So Little of It" | |
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Nuts and Bolts: The Pragmatic Case Study Method | |
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Let the Games Begin | |
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Quality Control | |
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Linking Frameworks | |
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From Single Case to Database | |
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Application | |
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Psychology and Psychotherapy: From "House of Cards" to "House of Cases" | |
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An End to Our "Era of Good Feeling" | |
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The Battle | |
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A Pragmatic Proposal | |
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A Case in Point | |
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Educational Reform: From "Culture Wars" and "Silver Bullets" to the Real Classroom | |
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The Factory Model | |
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The Combatants Square Off | |
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Many Promising Reform Ideas | |
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Ideas Are Cheap, Successful Cases Are Not | |
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Implications | |
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Manifesto for a Pragmatic Psychology | |
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Prologue: A Call for Pluralism | |
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Pragmatists Unite! An Action Plan for Making Case-based Psychology a Reality | |
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Vision: Staying in Touch with Our Roots | |
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The Challenge Ahead | |
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Notes | |
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References | |
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Index | |
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About the Author | |