再论我国心理学的分化现象

我国心理学正处于分化过程之中,其中两个明显的例证就是:基础心理学与应用及人文心理学的分化,以及对心理学研究和服务成果的评价标准摆脱SCI的束缚.这背后深层的原因在于,若以科学哲学认识论的视角,人类的知识大致可分为可靠有用的知识和无用虚幻(伪科学)的知识,可靠知识又可进一步分为科学的知识和非科学的知识.心理学从诞生之日起...

A Rediscussion of the Phenomenon of Psychological Differentiation in China

Psychology in China is now undertaking a process of differentiation.Two obvious examples are:(1)Applied and humanistic psychology has become more independent from basic research psychology,and played a more important role in serving people and society in need;(2)a new evaluation criteria of psychological research and service achievements is required to break the shackles of SCI exclusively.From the perspective of philosophy of science,human knowledge can be roughly divided into reliable(useful)knowledge and illusory knowledge(pseudo-science),and then the reliable knowledge can be further divided into scientific knowledge and nonscientific knowledge.Since its birth,psychology has been motivated by philosophy and science at the same time,which has been leading the development of scientific psychology and applied and humanistic psychology,respectively.However,people's understanding of psychology from the West is somewhat biased and incomplete,ignoring the existence of applied and humanistic psychology as a useful knowledge as well as scientific psychology.Scholars have long given all psychology a title of“science”,and evaluated all outcomes of psychology by the SCI standard in the name of“science”.The differentiation of psychology in China,however is auspicious.It will promote the psychology of our country to break through the limits set by itself,and psychology greater room for development.Not only can it provide psychological knowledge for exploring the unknown psychological world,but also serve the practical needs of the people in pursuit of a better life and social governance.