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Psychology, in its brief history, has gone through numerous significant transitions. The great diversity of psychological schools and approaches that exist and have existed is so bewildering that it is difficult to maintain a clear historical perspective regarding contemporary developments in psychology. Accounts of the history of psychology have traditionally focused rather narrowly on events within psychology, and have therefore contributed to the myopic vision that many psychologists have acquired regarding the history of their field. Further, since one’s interpretation of the history of psychology is largely determined by one’s theoretical perspective, the prospect of achieving a consensually acceptable account of psychology’s history has become very problematic.
Thus the divorce between scientist facts and religious facts may not necessarily be as eternal as it at first sight seems, nor the personalism and romanticism of the world… be matters so irrevocably outgrown. The final human opinion may, in short… revert to the more personal style… the rigorously impersonal view of science might one day appear as having been a temporarily useful eccentricity rather than the definitively triumphant position which the sectarian scientist at present so confidently announces it to be.
William James (1902)
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Johnson, J.G. (1989). On the Implications of the Relativity/Quantum Revolution for Psychology. In: Kramer, D.A., Bopp, M.J. (eds) Transformation in Clinical and Developmental Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3594-1_2
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