Abstract

Reviews the book, Hermeneutics and psychological theory: Interpretive perspectives on personality, psychotherapy, and psychopathology edited by S. B. Messer, L. A. Sass, and R. L. Woolfolk. This book is the result of the Second Symposium on Applied Psychology sponsored by the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology of Rutgers University, focussing on the epistemological foundations of psychology. The book operates on several levels simultaneously: theory and research, overview presentations and concrete investigations, clinical and experimental research. It covers a wide spectrum of topics represented by distinguished recognized scholars in each area in personality, psychotherapy, psychopathology, methodological, and it dialogues a variety of theoretical approaches including psychoanalysis, cognitive behaviorism, existentialism, hermeneutic phenomenology, Marxism, social constructionism, and history of ideas. The editors of this book succeed in providing us with a coherent and inviting introduction, and they make many valuable connections with current American psychological work. 2012 APA, all rights reserved)