6 Robert K. Beshara
The book aspires to target (under)graduate students, as well as scholar-
activists, in the humanities and social sciences, who are interested in a
critical and transdisciplinary approach to psychology that is limited by
neither a narrow understanding of psyche as behavior, cognition, or
neurochemistry nor an exclusive focus on ‘major’ research perspectives
like behaviorism, cognitivism, and neuroscience. The contributors come
from different backgrounds and represent a diversity of knowledge and of
being; in other words, their contributions signify the wisdom (sophia) that
is missing in most introductory textbooks on mainstream (Euro-American)
psychology. This epistemic and ontic diversity, or pluriversality, is an
expression of love (philos), which is voiced in the ‘minor’ (i.e.,
transmodern/decolonial), but transdisciplinary perspectives adopted by the
authors throughout the book, which include: cultural-historical activity
theory (González Rey, chapter 2), philosophical psychology (De Vos,
chapter 3), humanistic-transpersonal psychology (Atlas, chapter 4), critical
race psychology (Whitehead, chapter 5), dialogical psychology (Bertau &
Roberts, chapter 6), liberation psychology (Deligio, chapter 7), feminist
psychology (Skott-Myhre, chapter 8), discursive psychology (Korobov,
chapter 9), psychoanalysis (Bell, chapter 10), critical social psychology
(Amedeo Marquez, chapter 11), poststructural psychology (Beck &
Glazier, chapter 12), and decolonial psychology (Kessi, chapter 13).
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