| Abstract: | A "major break-through is occurring at the present time in psychology." 8 parameters traditionally accepted as given in psychology but now increasingly questioned are examined: (a) The model of man as a composite of part functions. (b) The model of science taken over from physics. (c) The model of a practitioner taken over from medicine. (d) The pattern of compartmentalized subdivided graduate school faculty and curriculum as the appropriate agency for preparing students for psychological careers. (e) The criterion of statistical frequency as a demonstration of truth or reality. (f) The illusion that research precedes practice. (g) The myth of the "clinical team." (h) The fallacy that diagnosis is basic to treatment. A tremendously exciting development in psychology is its returned to consideration of "the functioning and experience of a whole human being." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
