At 11:52 AM -0600 3/11/00, G. Marc Turner wrote:
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>And for some reason, as a field, Psychology has trouble making a stand and
>saying "This is not psychology." We tend to allow such a vast array of
>issues to fall under our umbrella that it becomes harder and harder to keep
>anything out. At some point, as a field, we will have to draw a line. Of
>course, when attempts to draw these lines have happened in the past, we
>immediately hear cries about the "division within psychology that will rip
>apart the field" and how we must "unify the field." But, in my opinion, the
>time is coming when we will have to make more than a symbolic division
>which is all the APA/APS division has become at this point in my mind. It
>will probably take the founding of a new discipline that breaks with some
>of the roots that still bind APS to APA. In my opinion, the process has
>started, but it still has a long way to go and short time to get there...
Right!
As the various "Psychologies" mature, we will distinguish Psychology as
Science from
Psychology as Guild (this is what the APA is becoming) and
Psychology as Religion.
And the AWK will become as extinct as the Auk ;-)
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