Anthropological psychology

intermediate

PS_W01

PS_W02

PS_W08

UKSW-PO

The essence of the subject is reflected in the words: "All anthropology is psychological. All psychology is cultural" (Bock, 1988, Rethinking Psychological Anthropology, p. 27. New York: W. H. Freeman). Therefore the aim of lectures is deepening the relationship between psyche and culture as well as learning programs of psychological research and cultural sciences regarding the construction of an adequate picture of a man. The main idea/leitmotiv of the course is the soul perspective and the key method is anthropoanalisis.

1. Main terms: psychology and anthropology and anthropological psychology; psychological anthropology and anthropological psychology.

2. Provenience and history of anthropological psychology; related disciplines.

3. Psychologia Anthropologica by Otto Casmann.

4. American psychological anthropology, psychoanalytic and cognitive - provenience and history of paradigms, subject, foundations, methods.

5. Cultural psychology as so-called second psychology (M. Cole, R. Shweder, C. Ratner, J. Bruner).

6. Psyche and personality and culture (E. Sapir, R. Benedict, M. Mead, R. Linton, C. Kluckhohn): self, cultural emotions, morality, upbringing.

7. Psychological anthropologies/pictures of a man in classical and alternate psychological conceptions.

8. Chosen anthropologies with psychological themes: Cracow School of Anthropology (K. Wojtyła, J. Tischer, A. Kępiński, R. Ingarden).

9. The idea of a soul as a core idea of real psychology (F. von Baader, W. Dilthey) - original project.

10. Relationship between myth and phantasm as a root idea of anthropological psychology.

11. Historical-cultural and indigenous psychology.

12. Re-visions of psychology/philosophy of man in conceptions of James Hillman and Ernest Boesch.

13. Methods of anthropo-analysis (such as Conotational Analysis, imaginal psychology, existential psychology, psycho-cultural analysis/myth-analysis).

14. Chosen applications of anthropological psychology:

a. Culture therapy.

b. Psychology of the Slavs.

c. Psychology of the contemporary culture.

d. Transcultural communications.

e. Transreligiousness.

f. The myth of love.

g. Phantasm of Polishness.

15. Psychocultural analysis of original research material/documentary films (for instance: Mexico, Guatemala, Indonesia, China, North Korea, Syberia/Buriatia, Ecuadorian Amazonia, Japan, Thailand, African countries).

Bruner, J. (2010). Kultura edukacji. Kraków: Universitas.

Buchowski, M. (red.) (1993). Amerykańska antropologia kognitywna. Warszawa: Instytut Kultury.

Burszta, W. (1998). Antropologia kultury: tematy, teorie, interpretacje. Poznań: Zysk i S-ka.

Geertz, C. (2006). Zastane światło. Antropologiczne refleksje na tematy filozoficzne. Kraków: Universitas.

Kępiński, A. (2012). Rytm życia. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie.

Le-Vine, R.A. (ed.) (2010). Psychological Anthropology. Chichester: Blackwell Publishing.

MacDonald, P. S. (2019). Psyche. Dzieje pojęcia. Warszawa: Biblioteka Kwartalnika Kronos.

Pankalla, A., Dudek, Z.W. (2005/2008). Psychologia kultury. Doświadczenia graniczne i transkulturowe. Warszawa: Eneteia.

Pankalla, A., Kilian, A. (2007). Psychescapes. Tożsamość naszych czasów. Poznań: PWP.

Pankalla, A., Klaus, Z. (2010). Mitoterapia. Poznań: Poznańskie Wydawnictwo Psycho-Kulturowe, Black Unicorn, Wydawnictwo Psychologii Mitu.

Pankalla, A. (2011). Mitocentryczna psychologia kulturowa Ernesta Boescha. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM.

Pankalla, A. (2014). Kultura psychologów. Wprowadzenie do psychologii historyczno-kultuowej. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Altermed.

Pankalla, A., Kośnik, K. (2018). Indygeniczna psychologia Słowian. Wprowadzenie do realnej nauki o duszy. Kraków: Universitas.

Płonka-Syroka, B. (red.) (2005). Antropologia wiedzy. Perspektywy badawcze dyscypliny. Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Katedry Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej UWr.

Tischner, J. (2011). Spór o istnienie człowieka. Kraków: Znak.

Wojtyła, K. (2011). Osoba i czyn. Lublin: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL.

Knowledge:

- knows and understands the subject of anthropological psychology

- knows and understands the specificity of different interpretations of human behaviour from the perspective of anthropological psychology

- knows and understands methods of interpretation of individual behaviours variation

5 - excellent knowledge, skills, and personal and social competences

4.5 - very good knowledge, skills, and personal and social competences

4.0 - good knowledge, skills, and personal and social competences

3.5 - satisfactory knowledge, skills, and personal and social competences, however with significant mistakes

3.0 - satisfactory knowledge, skill, and personal and social competences, however with many mistakes

2.0 - unsatisfactory knowledge, skills, and personal and social competences

Written exam - a test and open-ended questions.

Not applicable.