The crisis in psychology
@article{Bakan1996TheCI,
title={The crisis in psychology},
author={David Bakan},
journal={Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless},
year={1996},
volume={5},
pages={335-342}
}The crisis of psychology is not in the lack of psychologists or lack of literature being produced. It is in the poor development of our understanding of human life, the science itself, and the relationship of the science to the world. Three senses in which there has been loss, subject matter, method, and mission, are discussed. The loss with respect to subject matter is associated with the systematic denial of the self-evident fact that mentation, at least in the form of decisions, plans and…
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