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This chapter explains why the once famous ‘Crisis of psychology’ has not gone away and why a general psychology is needed. General psychology is understood as the theoretical field that outlines what psychology is the science of and maps the architecture of the psychological domain within the larger compass of nature and framework of science. Explained is also how a student rebellion in Copenhagen against the Copenhagen School of Phenomenology launched the author on that project.
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Ebbinghaus (1908, p. 3).
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Engelsted and Køppe (1994).
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Koch and Leary (1992, p. 2).
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Miller (1992, p. 40).
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Giorgi (1992, p. 46).
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Pylyshyn (1987, p. 97).
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Koch and Leary (1992, p. 2).
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Giorgi (1992, p. 50).
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Karl Bühler (1927): Die Krise der Psychologie, Verlag von Gustav Fischer:Jena.
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A popularized version from my lectures can be seen here: http://engelsted.net/PPEnglish/GeneralPsychology/GP-files/BlindMenAndElephant.exe.
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Engelsted, N. (2017). Introduction. In: Catching Up With Aristotle . SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51088-0_1
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