Courageous Methods in Cultural Psychology

Meike Watzlawik is professor of development, education, and culture at the Sigmund Freud University in Berlin, Germany, and head of the university’s Psychology Department, as well as director of the clinical master’s program. Her scholarly interests include identity development in adolescence, diversity, and theoretical approaches to culture.Ska Salden is a lecturer and research associate at Sigmund Freud University in Berlin, Germany. Besides cultural psychology, their interests include the intersections of psychology and queer studies.

• Chapter 1. The Crooked Relationship Between Method and Matter.- Chapter 2. Reading Traces in Eels and Faces: Historical Roots of Semiotic Thinking in Psychology.- Chapter 3. Why We Have Two Ears: Particularized Meaning Beyond Language, or The Benefits of Musicalization in Research.- Chapter 4. Unfrozen: A Voice-Centered Listening Analysis of Self-Acceptance.- Chapter 5. Breaking Down Complex Realities: The Exploration of Children’s Prosocial Actions Using Photographs.- Chapter 6. How Do People Make Meaning? A Methodological Dialogue between Social Anthropology and Developmental Psychology.- Chapter 7. Studying the stream of experience at memorial sites: The subjective camera methodology.- Chapter 8. Multimodal Interaction Analysis in Cultural Psychology research.- Chapter 9. Multisensory Ethnography as a Tool for Reconstructing Spatial Identities.- Chapter 10. "I had to google it": Toward an embodied pedagogy in psychology.- Chapter 11. Art as a Domain of Psychological Reality - Morphological Art Research and Art Coaching.- Chapter 12. Collaborative Realities.