A New Synthesis for Solving the Problem of Psychology

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In this incisive analysis of academic psychology, Gregg Henriques examines the fragmented nature of the discipline and explains why the field has had enormous difficulty specifying its subject matter and how this has limited its ability to advance our knowledge of the human condition. He traces the origins of the problem of psychology to a deep and profound gap in our knowledge systems that emerged in the context of the scientific Enlightenment.

To address this problem, this book introduces a new vision for scientific psychology called mental behaviorism. The approach is anchored to a comprehensive metapsychological framework that integrates insights from physics and cosmic evolution, neuroscience, the cognitive and behavioral sciences, developmental and complex adaptive systems theory, attachment theory, phenomenology, and social constructionist perspectives and is well grounded in the philosophy of science. Building on more than twenty years of work in theoretical psychologyand drawing on a wide range of literature, Professor Henriques shows how this new approach to scientific knowledge fills in the gaps of our current understanding of psychology and can allow us to develop a more holistic and sophisticated way to understand animal and human mental behavioral patterns. This work will especially appeal to students and scholars of general psychology and theoretical psychology, as well as to historians and philosophers of science.

In this incisive analysis of academic psychology, Gregg Henriques examines the fragmented nature of the discipline and explains why the field has had enormous difficulty specifying its subject matter and how this has limited its ability to advance our knowledge of the human condition. He traces the origins of the problem of psychology to a deep and profound gap in our knowledge systems that emerged in the context of the scientific Enlightenment.

To address this problem, this book introduces a new vision for scientific psychology called mental behaviorism. The approach is anchored to a comprehensive metapsychological framework that integrates insights from physics and cosmic evolution, neuroscience, the cognitive and behavioral sciences, developmental and complex adaptive systems theory, attachment theory, phenomenology, and social constructionist perspectives and is well grounded in the philosophy of science. Building on more than twenty years of work in theoreticalpsychology and drawing on a wide range of literature, Professor Henriques shows how this new approach to scientific knowledge fills in the gaps of our current understanding of psychology and can allow us to develop a more holistic and sophisticated way to understand animal and human mental behavioral patterns. This work will especially appeal to students and scholars of general psychology and theoretical psychology, as well as to historians and philosophers of science.

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“This integrative masterpiece exemplifies the best of cognitive science. It pursues a synoptic integration of many different literatures to generate a new, highly plausible framework for understanding the mind. Henriques is a modern Aristotle whose overarching vision is not only cogently and rigorously argued, but it also affords a conceptual vocabulary and theoretical grammar for the scientifically grounded practice of psychotherapy and the existential understanding of the human condition needed to address the current meaning crisis. This book should be required reading for any undergraduate psychology program, and it should be studied and discussed in depth within graduate programs.  The field of psychology needs to be transformed in a way that can address both its internal problems and the external problems of mind and mental health facing the world today. Henriques book does this masterfully.” (John Vervaeke, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Toronto, Canada, and author of Awakening from the Meaning Crisis)

“We live in an age that requires a new and better vision of what psychology is and can be, which is to say that today we need a new metapsychology. Gregg Henriques offers one of the most comprehensive and academically rigorous metapsychological visions available today. Moving across ‘Big History,’ epistemology, and nearly every subfield of psychology, Henriques offers an impressive metamodern synthesis, and provocative cultural play. If this book has the reception it deserves, the field of psychology will never be the same.” (Dr.Zak Stein, Co-Founder Civilizational Research Institute & Consilience Project, Co-President; Center for World Philosophy and Religion, USA. Author of Education in a Time Between Worlds: Essays on the Future of Schools, Technology, and Society)

“A New Synthesis for Solving the Problem of Psychology is a dazzlingly ambitious attempt to close the gap between lawful objective and contextual interpersonal science; a gap left wanting since the advent of the Enlightenment. Through the promising voice of metamodernism – along with synthetic elegance – Henriques moves us toward a fuller, richer, and wiser psychological worldview.” (Kirk J. Schneider, Ph.D., author of Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy, The Spirituality of Awe, and the forthcoming Life-Enhancing Anxiety: Key to a Sane World)

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