Cognitive Frames in Psychology: Demarcations and Ruptures

As there seems to be a recurrent feeling of crisis in psychology, its present state is analyzed in this article. The author believes that in addition to the traditional manifestations that have dogged psychology since it emerged as an independent science 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 by the crisis of its rationalistic foundations. This situation is described in terms of the cognitive systems in psychology which include meta-theories, paradigms, sociodigms and metadigms.

Andrey V. YurevichEmail:

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Andrey V. Yurevich   graduated from the Faculty of Psychology of the Moscow State University in 1979. Since then he has been affiliated with the Institute for the History of Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). At present, he is the Deputy Director of the Institute of Psychology of the RAS, Professor of Psychology and Associate Member of the RAS.