Annals of Theoretical Psychology

I have been involved in constructing a unified theory for many years, in considering the state of psychology's unity-disunity, and in generally attempt­ ing to persuade our profession to work on its unification. In this work I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with the works of a nu...

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Other Authors: Staats, Arthur W. (Editor), Mos, Leendert P. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1987, 1987
Edition:1st ed. 1987
Series:Annals of Theoretical Psychology
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I. Unification (Uninomic) Psychology
  • 1. Unified Positivism: Philosophy for the Revolution to Unity
  • II. The Place of Division in Unification
  • 2. A Good Divorce Is Better Than a Bad Marriage
  • 3. The Growth of a Unified Scientific Psychology: Ordeal by Quackery
  • III. Conceptual Schemas for Unification
  • 4. Toward the Integration of Individual Psychodynamic Theories and Family Systems Theories
  • 5. Behavioral Intervention: An Old Aspiration with a New Profile
  • 6. Psychoanalytic and Cognitive Dissonance Theories: Producing Unification through the Unifying Theory Review
  • 7. The Psychological Level of Organization in Nature and Interdependencies among Major Psychological Concepts
  • IV. Metatheory in Unification
  • 8. Unity and Diversity in the Behavioral and Natural Sciences
  • 9. Toward a Unified Psychological Science: The Meaning of Behavior
  • 10. A Strategy for Developing Unifying Theory in Psychology
  • 11. Disunity in Psychology: Implications for and from Sociology and Anthropology
  • 12. A Comparative Analysis of the General Theories of Modern Behaviorism: Unification through Generational Advance
  • 13. Integrity or Unity
  • of Earlier Volumes
  • Author Index