Marková, Ivana, 1938-2024

Ivana Marková was an unconventional psychologist and an uncompromising interdisciplinary scholar whose body of work reflected deeply humanist concerns grounded in her biography and her experience of the impact of historical and societal events on individual lives. Her work was both theoretical and applied, but it was the theoretical contribution for which she was particularly known in psychology and beyond. Her writings freely combined philosophy, history, and linguistics with social, developmental and cultural psychology, with the result that her contribution was a highly distinctive one. She never detached her thinking from a more general reflection on the epistemology of psychology, and throughout her long career she never lost the imprint of her training in the Czech philosophical and linguistic tradition.

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