Cognitive Frames in Psychology: Demarcationsand Ruptures

摘要

As there seems to be a recurrent feeling of crisis in psychology, its presentstate is analyzed in this article. The author believes that in addition to the traditionalmanifestations that have dogged psychology since it emerged as an independentscience some new features of the crisis have emerged. Three fundamental "ruptures"are identified: the "horizontal" rupture between various schools and trends, the"vertical" rupture between natural science and humanitarian psychology, and the"diagonal" rupture between academic research and applied practice of psychology.These manifestations of the crisis of psychology have recently been compounded bythe crisis of its rationalistic foundations. This situation is described in terms of thecognitive systems in psychology which include meta-theories, paradigms, socio-digms and metadigms.