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Following the demise of the so-called grand theories offered by luminaries like Sigmund Freud, B. F. Skinner, and Carl Rogers, the field of psychology largely gave up its early aspirations to paint a broad picture of the human...
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Following the demise of the so-called grand theories offered by luminaries like Sigmund Freud, B. F. Skinner, and Carl Rogers, the field of psychology largely gave up its early aspirations to paint a broad picture of the human condition, and now the discipline focuses primarily on empirical problems that have a relatively narrow scope. The consequence has been a proliferation of interesting findings with no real capacity to answer big questions or to generate a shared general understanding of the human condition. This book seeks to change the status quo and offers up a new unified theory of psychology that redefines the science and the profession and paints a new picture of human nature in the process.
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Praise for
A New Unified Theory of Psychology
"The field of psychology is known for its paradoxical combination of sweeping scope and impressive micro-theories, on the one hand, and fragmentation and internecine squabbling, on the other. To this state of affairs, any serious effort to provide integration and unity within psychological knowledge and understanding is heartily welcomed. And Henriques' effort in this regard is not only serious, but one of the most cogent, scholarly, sophisticated, beautifully reasoned, clearly articulated, and accessibly written presentations of a unified theory in psychology that I have seen in my 50 years in the discipline."
Daniel B. Fishman, Author of The Case for Pragmatic Psychology,
Professor, Rutgers University
"As the field of psychology has grown, so have the challenges of fragmentation and of misunderstandings. This brave book represents a noble quest to provide a broad, values-based, and scientific framework which holds the power to organize our work and move us forward in strong, new ways."
Lawrence G. Calhoun, Author of Facilitating Post-Traumatic Growth,
Professor, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
"In this very ambitious book, Henriques makes a strong case for why bold efforts are needed in the fragmented realm of psychological research and theory. Although different readers will likely make different judgments about how well Henriques has succeeded in his aims, it nevertheless is an act of intellectual daring that can perhaps inspire psychologists to look outside the narrow confines of a single laboratory paradigm and open their thinking to how to address the full range of human behavior and experience."
Paul L. Wachtel, Author of Therapeutic Communication,
Distinguished Professor, CUNY
"Concise, erudite, and practical, this book is a manifesto that challenges psychology to move past fragmented domains of knowledge to a consilient framework, which will allow multi-disciplinary discourse and scientific advances. I suggest all scientists, psychotherapists, and scholars spend some time familiarizing themselves with the concepts and suggestions presented in this seminal volume by a leading scholar."
Jeffrey Magnavita, Author of Personality Guided Relational Psychotherapy,Founder of the Unified Psychotherapy Project
Dr. Henriques has been working on the Tree of Knowledge System for just over a decade. During his Masters degree, he had become interested in the field of psychotherapy integration and began surveying diverse bodies of literature. It was late in 1996, while he was reading up on research in social cognitive theory, evolutionary psychology and psychodynamic theory that he had the key insight that led to the Justification Hypothesis. Six months after that pivotal idea, he had developed the basic structure of the Tree of Knowledge System.
- Autor: Gregg Henriques
- 2011, 2011, 290 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- ISBN-10: 1461400589
- ISBN-13: 9781461400585
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.08.2011
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"...the author takes on the extremely ambitious challenge of defining psychology, articulating conceptually its relations with other sciences, identifying its key theoretical principles, and resolving its various schisms (research/practice, neuroscience/social science, animal/human, bewildering array of seemingly nonoverlapping theories and therapies)...He has a terrific ability to describe, analyze, and summarize in a few pages massive and complicated areas of research (attributions, cognitive dissonance, behavioral models of depression.......) without getting bogged down in study details...I especially enjoyed the more personal details and anecdotes the book format gave him the space to include -- e.g., development of the "Justification Hypothesis" as the "joint point" between Mind and Culture takes off from his reflections on why he was late getting home for dinner one night in grad school. And some of his comments on psychotherapy integration take as point of departure detailed analysis of what he observed as project director for a clinical trial of cognitive therapy in prevention of recurrent suicide attempts that never made the final published report of the study...All told, it's not light reading, but if you enjoy thinking about big picture topics you will find a lot of food for thought here." (Dave Haaga, American University, September 2011)
"Like sociology and anthropology, psychology is defined by incompatible competing schools of thought.and cannot be considered a mature science, because there is no sense in which each generation of researchers builds upon the core analytical insights of previous generations of researchers… This book is written for clinical and research psychologists, and hence avoids the sort of mathematical model building and axiomatization that is characteristic of mature sciences… Henriques notes that it is almost impossible to define contemporary psychology because many psychologists consider
“Offers a set of nested frameworks that puts different parts of psychological research and practice into a coherent relationship with each other. … It is also helpful that the book has excellent transitions, with summaries frequently reminding the readers where they have been and anticipating where they are going. … If I could teach a graduate-level Introduction to Psychology, this would be the book. If I could recommend one book to colleagues distraught at the fragmented nature of the field, this would be the book.” (Eric P. Charles, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 57 (26), July, 2012)
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