The Case for Pragmatic Psychology [Hardcover]

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The interested reader is urged to contact the author and join a Pragmatic Psychology Dialogue Group at the following web site:http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~dfishman/

"At long last, a tightly reasoned, thoroughly grounded treatise showing that complex social programs can be understood far more profoundly and usefully than past mindsets have allowed."
--Lisbeth B. Schorr, author ofCommon Purpose: Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods to Rebuild America

"Fishman creates a new paradigm for advancing clinical science. Every mental health professional aspiring to be accountable and a scientist practitioner in their work should be aware of the ideas in this readable and entertaining book."
--David H. Barlow, editor ofClinical Handbook of Psychological Disorders

"Daniel Fishman cuts through rhetoric with clear writing and a razor-sharp wit. The chapter on education is like the welcome beam of a lighthouse in a fog."
--Maurice J. Elias, coauthor ofSocial Problem Solving: Interventions in the Schools

"Fishman makes the case for a pragmatic psychology in unusually lucid and forceful prose. This book should be read not only by professional psychologists but by anyone interested in the future of mind-related science."
--John Horgan, author ofThe End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age

"Fishman's liberating insights will free his readers to set aside the intellectual quandaries that plague philosophers and psychologists at the end of the 20th century, and turn back with confidence to the practice of their wl“+