This book Beyond the Mind: Cultural Dynamics of the Psyche is unusual
in the content and it the format. That's why it requires an unusual
look. It has to do with a man, an intellectual journey and with
uncountable travels across the world over the last two decades.
This man is Jaan Valsiner and here you will read of his restless effort
of elaborating ideas while going in different places as invited keynote.
This book is mainly about his intellectual trajectory, which touches
several places and several and interconnected topics.
This book is about the "minutes" of his "bigger" and well organize works
and also it is a collection of only apparently fragmented texts (mainly
keynote lectures, unpublished or rejected papers) where the readers will
see the "step- by-step" elaboration over the years of new ideas,
theories, models and even schemas (which Jaan likes very much--maybe
especially as he claims basic inability to draw anything).