Heinz Werner by Selau, Bento; Fossa, Pablo;

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This book’s aim is to rescue from oblivion the work of a forgotten founder of developmental psychology: Austrian psychologist Heinz Werner. Based on the Orthogenetic Principle, Werner created a structuralist-systemic way of understanding organismic development as genetic processes always leading parts of a system to increasing levels of differentiation and hierarchical integration in relation to the whole system. This made him one of the pioneers of developmental sciences along with figures such as James Baldwin, Lev Vygotsky and Jean Piaget. Werner, however, has never enjoyed the same degree of recognition as his peers and his work started to fall into oblivion by the end of the 20^th century.

By rescuing Heinz Werner’s work from oblivion, authors in this volume argue that it’s possible to find a way to the future of developmental psychology by looking at a forgotten part of its past. So, this contributed volume brings together chapters that review Heinz Werner’s main theoretical contributions to developmental psychology, point to the limitations of Werner’s work and propose new theoretical and methodological approaches that build upon Werner’s work to contribute to revitalize his legacy and make his original ideas the basis of a holistic approach to developmental psychology that aims at understanding development in a systemic and contextualized way.

Heinz Werner: A Forgotten Pioneer in Developmental Sciences will be an invaluable resource for researchers and students in the fields of developmental, educational and theoretical psychology.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 Heinz Werner: Science Often Forgets its Own Past.- Part 1 The Man Behind his Legacy.- Chapter 2 Development as Metamorphosis: The Romantic Roots of Werner’s Organismic Theory.- Chapter 3 Heinz Werner: A pioneer of Cognitive/Developmental Phenomenology.- Chapter 4 Werner and Kaplan – Expanding the Dynamic Dimension.- Chapter 5 Heinz Werner, Action and Personality: A Critical Personalist Revision of his Theory of Integration and Differentiation.- Part 2 Expanding Werner.- Chapter 6 Heinz Werner’s Organismic-developmental Framework: Why a Wonderful Idea Went Wrong and How to Fix It.- Chapter 7 The Symbolic Construction of Intimacy: Orthogenetic Development in Couples’ Relationships.- Chapter 8 Heinz Werner’s Developmental Psychology and Hans Loewald’s Psychoanalytic Developments. The Effort to Understand Human Psychic Growth.- Chapter 9 The Development of the Child in Perspective and Early Childhood Education: Contributions of Corporeality Based on the Axes of Play and Interaction.- Chapter 10 Werner and Luria on Perception and Language: Cultural Forms and Cognitive Structures.- Chapter 11 A concept of Additional Language Literacy Development (ALLD): Elaborations on Bronckart, Werner and Vygotsky.- Chapter 12 New Ways of Understanding Learning in the Light of Heinz Werner and Lev Vygotsky.- Part 3 Final Comments.- Chapter 13 Werner’s development principle: Forgotten, But Not Quite.- Chapter 14 Epilogue: A future Still Ahead.