Product Description
by Frank C. Richardson (Author)
Suffering and Psychology challenges modern psychology's concentration on almost exclusively on eradicating pain, suffering, and their causes to examines the ideological commitments of this vision of the discipline and offer a counter-vision.
Author Biography
Frank C. Richardson is Professor of Educational Psychology (emeritus) at the University of Texas, Austin. He is author or coeditor of several books, including Re-envisioning Psychology, Critical thinking about Psychology, and the Routledge International Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology and the author of many articles and chapters in theoretical psychology and the philosophy of social science. His current interests include topics in psychology and religion. He is a past president of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (Division 24 of the American Psychological Association) and recipient of a Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society.
