Unifying psychology

Key texts

Books

Kitcher, P. (1992). Freud’s Dream: A Complete Interdisciplinary Science of Mind. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Papers

• Henriques, G (2003) The Tree of Knowledge System and the Theoretical Unification of Psychology. Review of General Psychology, Vol. 7, No. 2, 150-182. Fulltext.

• Henriques, G (2004)Psychology Defined.Journal of Clinical Psychology, 60/12 (2004), pp. 1207-21. Full text

• Henriques, G & Sternberg, R J (2004)Unified professional psychology: Implications for the Combined-Integrated model of doctoral training. Journal of Clinical Psychology,Volume 60, Issue 10 , Pages 1051 - 1063. Abstract

• McNally, R J (1992). Disunity in psychology: Chaos or specializtion? American Psychologist, 47, 399-413.

• Slife, B D (2000)Are Discourse Communities Incommensurable in a Fragmented Psychology? The Possibility of Disciplinary Coherence. J. Mind & Behav,vol 21; pt 3, pages 261-272. ISSN 0271-0137

• Staats, W A (1999)Unifying Psychology Requires New Infrastructure, Theory, Method and a Research Agenda. Review of General Psychology, Vol. 3, No. 1,3-13. Full text

• Sternberg R J & Grigorenko E L (2001) Unified psychology. Am Psychol. Dec;56(12):1069-79. PMID 11802643

• Yanchar, S C(2004)Some discontents with theoretical unification: a response to Henriques' "psychology defined".J Clin Psychol. Dec;60(12):1279-81.PMID 15470739

Additional material

Papers

• Baars, B J (1985) The logic of unification, Contemporary Psychology, 30, 340.

• Bower, G H (1993) . The Fragmentation of psychology? American Psychologist, 48, 905-907.

• Dixon, R A (1983) Theoretical proliferation in psychology. A plea for sustained disunity. The Psychological Record 33, 337-40.

• Drob, S (1987) The dilemma of contemporary psychiatry. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 43, 54-67.

• Drob, S L (2003) The Dilema of Contemporary Psychology: A Dialectical Solution. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Volume 43, No. 4, Full text

• Giorgi, A (1985) Theoretical plurality and unity in psychology. The Psychological Record, 35, 177-81.

• Kimble, G A (1984) Psychology’s two cultures. American Psychologist, 39, 833-839.

• Koch, S. (1981) The nature and limits of psychological knowledge: Lessons of a quarter century qua science. American Psychologist, 36, 257-69.

• Kristensen, K B (1997) On What Basis are Evaluations Possible in a Fragmented Psychology. Paper presented at the 1997 Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association.

• Martin, J. (1997) Fragmentation, Hermeneutics, and Liberal Education in Psychology. Paper presented at the 1997 Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association.

• Staats, A W (1981) Paradigmatic behaviorism, unified theory, unified theory construction, and the zeitgeist of separatism. American Psychologist, 36, 239-256.

• Staats, A W (1986) Unified positivism: a philosophy for psychology and the disunified sciences. Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 6, 77-90.

• Staats, A W (1991) Unified positivism and unification psychology: Fad or new field? American Psychologist, 46, 899-912.