Psychologists Caught: A Psycho-Logic of Psychology

By Lewis W. Brandt and Louis W. Brandt

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802065082
• ISBN13: 9780802065087
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.9" x 9.1"

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Psychologists Caught

A psychology that canmnot explain how human beings develop psychological systems, theories, research methods, techniques, and treatments falls short of its goal. In this book, Dr. Brandt investigates how close to the goal various systems come. Beginning with a discussion of his own premises, which are largely bases on his own experience, he proceeds to consider the premises of various schools of psychology - behaviorist, psychoanallytic, gestalt, phenomenological, genetic, and dialectical-materialist. Brandt demonstrates how each is bound by a number of frameworks in which psyvhologists are caught. He discusses the roles played by different language backgrounds, interests and value systems, conceptualizations of the natural sciences, tastes, and religious systems, in determining the kind of psychology any given psychologists follow and try to promote. The author's approach in this book combines phenomenological and psychoanalitic approaches on the basis of their common hermeneutic approach. He draws upon a number of European works, cheifly German and Russian, not available in English, key sections of which he has translated. This book, therefore, is a unique introduction to recent German and Russian psychology for unilingual English readers. It will be of interest to a wide audience including practising psychologists and psychoatrists, philosophers of science, and those in the fields of social and theoretical psychology, and of systems and methodology. --- from book's back cover