Scott Greer Teaching and Research

A. Scott Greer, Ph.D.

Teaching & Research

Courses offered for 2010/11:

Fall 2010:

Psychology 301: ‘Psychology’ from the Ancient to the Modern World

Psychology 351: Theories of Personality

Psychology 463: Critical Issues for Contemporary Psychology

Winter 2010:

Psych 291: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Thought

Psych 302: The Emergence of Modern Psychology

Current Course Information and Supplements:

Psych 291

Readings:

Lecture outlines:

Evaluating Psychoanalytic Research

Psych 302

Readings:

Lecture outlines:

Introduction to Psychology I and II (Psych 101 and 102)

Psychology of Personal Experience (Psych 222)

Contemporary Psychoanalytic Thought (Psych 291)

‘Psychology' from the Ancient to the Modern World (Psych 301)

The Emergence of Modern Psychology (Psych 302)

Theories of Personality (Psych 351)

Gender and Sexuality (Psych 435)

Critical Issues for Contemporary Psychology (Psych 463)

Special Topics (Psych 432) courses:

Psychobiography (400 level)

Research Interests:

General research area involves the history and theory of psychology, particularly the social construction of knowledge in psychological theory and practice.

Current research and writing is focusing on the ontology and experience of presence (the ways the past resides, unrepresented, in the present) and the relationships among consciousness, memory, and meaning.

· This also involves the history of memory, and the relationship of the past to the present in both autobiographical and social contexts.

History and theories of consciousness, including the life and work of Julian Jaynes

Freud and psychoanalytic/psychodynamic thought

Existential, phenomenological, hermeneutic, and postmodern perspectives on psychology. Investigating and applying contributions by Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Foucault, as well as current social constructionist writers (e.g., Gergen, Sampson, Cushman), toward a de/reconstruction of psychological knowledge and practice

Selected recent publications:

Greer, S. (under review). The Resilient Disassembed Past: Memory, Presence, Metonymy, and Time. Submitted to ISTP, Captus Press.

Greer, S. (2010). That Day on River Valley and the Discovery of Presence. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 50 (3), 270-296.

Greer, S. (2009). If the Past Remembers Us, Will History Challenge Us? Book Review of L.T. Benjamin’s A history of psychology: Original sources and contemporary research (3^rd edition). Canadian Psychology, 50 (4), pp.293-294.

Greer, S. (2008). Is There a 'Self' in Self Research? Or, How Measuring the Self Caused It to Disappear. Social Practice/Psychological Theorizing. On-line at http://sppt-gulerce.boun.edu.tr.html.

Greer, S. (2006). A Knowing Noos and a Slippery Psychê: Jaynes’ Recipe for an Unnatural Theory of Consciousness. In Kuijsten, M. (ed.), Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness: Julian Jaynes' Bicameral Mind Theory Revisited, pp. 237-266. Las Vegas, NV: The Julian Jaynes Society.

Greer, S. (2005). Basic vs. applied social science research. In K. Kempf-Leonard (ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, pp. 121-128. San Diego, CA: Elsevier Academic Press.

Greer, S. (2004). Nazis, Nietzsches, and Nihilism: Book reviews of C. Diethe's Nietzsche's Sister and the Will to Power: A biography of Elisabeth Föster-Nietzsche and C. Bambach's Heidegger's Roots: Nietzsche, National Socialism, and the Greeks. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 40 (3), 319-321.

Greer, S. (2003). On the disciplining of esteem in psychological research: Three objections from Foucault, Rogers, and Luther. History and Philosophy of Psychology Bulletin, 15 (1), 2-9.

Greer, S. (2003). Self-esteem and the De-moralized Self : A Genealogy of Self Research and Measurement. In D. Hall and M. Krall (eds.), About Psychology: Essays at the Crossroads of History, Theory, and Philosophy, pp. 89-108. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Greer, S. (2002). Freud's ‘Bad Conscience': The Case of Nietzsche's Genealogy. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 38 (3), 303-315.

Greer, S. (2002). An Insider on the Outside Looking In: On the Future of the History of Psychology. History and Philosophy of Psychology Bulletin, 14 (1), 20-26.

Greer, S. (2001). Falling Off the Edge of the Modern World? American Psychologist, 56, 367-368.

Greer, S. (2000). Friedrich Nietzsche. In A. Kazdin (ed.)., The A.P.A. Encyclopedia of Psychology, pp. 442-443. Washington, DC: A.P.A. Books.

Greer, S. and Horwood, M. (1998). Music as History: The Representation of the Individual in Western Music. In: W. Hannah & C. Cockerton (Eds.), The Human Project: Readings on the Individual, Society and Culture, pp. 284-297. Scarborough: Prentice Hall, Allyn and Bacon, Canada.

Works in progress or on the horizon:

“And the Shades of Loved Ones Appear”: Freud, Proust, Joyce, and the Unbidden Past -- Paper presentation for International Human Science Reserch Conference, Montreal, June 2012

Sigmund Freud: Gender Pioneer (this is not a misprint) – UPEI Psychology Colloquium, March 30, 2012

The Skin of Memory – research article in preparation for Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

Ghosts, The Dead, and That Night at Newby’s – submitted to Social Practice/Psychological Theorizing

Comments/Questions: sgreer@upei.ca

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Fall 2010:

Psychology 301: ‘Psychology’ from the Ancient to the Modern World

Psychology 351: Theories of Personality

Psychology 463: Critical Issues for Contemporary Psychology

Winter 2010:

Psych 291: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Thought

Psych 302: The Emergence of Modern Psychology

Current Course Information and Supplements:

Psych 291

Readings:

Lecture outlines:

Psych 302

Readings:

Lecture outlines:

Introduction to Psychology I and II (Psych 101 and 102)

Psychology of Personal Experience (Psych 222)

Contemporary Psychoanalytic Thought (Psych 291)

‘Psychology' from the Ancient to the Modern World (Psych 301)

The Emergence of Modern Psychology (Psych 302)

Theories of Personality (Psych 351)

Gender and Sexuality (Psych 435)

Critical Issues for Contemporary Psychology (Psych 463)

Special Topics (Psych 432) courses:

Psychobiography (400 level)

History and theories of consciousness, including the life and work of Julian Jaynes

Freud and psychoanalytic/psychodynamic thought

Greer, S. (under review). The Resilient Disassembed Past: Memory, Presence, Metonymy, and Time. Submitted to ISTP, Captus Press.

Greer, S. (2010). That Day on River Valley and the Discovery of Presence. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 50 (3), 270-296.

Greer, S. (2009). If the Past Remembers Us, Will History Challenge Us? Book Review of L.T. Benjamin’s A history of psychology: Original sources and contemporary research (3rd edition). Canadian Psychology, 50 (4), pp.293-294.

Greer, S. (2008). Is There a 'Self' in Self Research? Or, How Measuring the Self Caused It to Disappear. Social Practice/Psychological Theorizing. On-line at http://sppt-gulerce.boun.edu.tr.html.

Greer, S. (2006). A Knowing Noos and a Slippery Psychê: Jaynes’ Recipe for an Unnatural Theory of Consciousness. In Kuijsten, M. (ed.), Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness: Julian Jaynes' Bicameral Mind Theory Revisited, pp. 237-266. Las Vegas, NV: The Julian Jaynes Society.

Greer, S. (2005). Basic vs. applied social science research. In K. Kempf-Leonard (ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, pp. 121-128. San Diego, CA: Elsevier Academic Press.

Greer, S. (2003). On the disciplining of esteem in psychological research: Three objections from Foucault, Rogers, and Luther. History and Philosophy of Psychology Bulletin, 15 (1), 2-9.

Greer, S. (2003). Self-esteem and the De-moralized Self : A Genealogy of Self Research and Measurement. In D. Hall and M. Krall (eds.), About Psychology: Essays at the Crossroads of History, Theory, and Philosophy, pp. 89-108. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Works in progress or on the horizon:

“And the Shades of Loved Ones Appear”: Freud, Proust, Joyce, and the Unbidden Past -- Paper presentation for International Human Science Reserch Conference, Montreal, June 2012

Sigmund Freud: Gender Pioneer (this is not a misprint) – UPEI Psychology Colloquium, March 30, 2012

The Skin of Memory – research article in preparation for Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

Ghosts, The Dead, and That Night at Newby’s – submitted to Social Practice/Psychological Theorizing

Comments/Questions: sgreer@upei.ca

Greer, S. (2009). If the Past Remembers Us, Will History Challenge Us? Book Review of L.T. Benjamin’s A history of psychology: Original sources and contemporary research (3^rd edition). Canadian Psychology, 50 (4), pp.293-294.