After reading a number of "scientific" articles, which has emerged over the past decade in the magazines "Questions of Psychology", "Psychological Journal", and a number of conversations with leading experts in the field of psychology and psychotherapy is gratifying to read in the first lecture of Julia Borisovna, which. After all the foregoing (and only in a small degree of reflecting the state of modern Russian psychology) it is not difficult to understand that this is a rare and bold statement.
It is a pity that it is not solved to help students decide which science is psychology - natural or humanitarian. It leaves the answer, believing that none of the above options is correct, since the psychology "". Here, I'm afraid, not exactly the case when you can just say "and I do not agree with both", and the case when if you said "a", then you need to say "b".
What does it mean "science of special type"? If this is a new breakthrough in epistemology (science of knowledge), then what is it? And if there is neither "b" nor a breakthrough, then it is more like an attempt to leave the humanitarian inquisitions impending on us.
Let's define: there is natural science that studies all that surrounds a person (and including the person himself), and a person in the framework of natural science is the privileged position not in the sense that it is fundamentally different from everything that exists around, but in that The sense that he is the customer, and it is his interests that serves human science.
All that surrounds us is natural. We ourselves are natural. We naturally want to comfortably live in the natural world, we want to receive pleasure from life, we want to enjoy life, and for this we need to know the natural laws and life, and the world. In this, the essence and natural science, and natural-scientific psychology, which, of course, differs from everyday psychology, as well as describes Julia Borisovna, but, in fact, closely interrelated with it.
What is humanitarian science? Humanitarian science is the soft name of activities, which actually has nothing to do with science, because in its foundation has nothing (except for the words) the wrong faith in the fact that a person in its essence is something special, something that is no natural - A scientific discipline will never be able to never, something that can only be a natural-scientific positivism and empiricism (back to A.F.Leshev) "This is nothing more than the last Meshchansky plant and the luxury of the Spirit." Materialist - "This is a lousy small squeak (which) wants to conquer the world to his insignificant proper peculiar. For this, he thinks his world as a kind of soulless, mechanically moving cattle (another world he will not dare to assign himself); For this, he thinks herself as a good banker, which by some mathematical computing seizes living people and living labor (another idea of himself would not allow to be a materialist to humanist). "
For what I love Freud, so this is that he, unlike idealist philosophers, has never sought to divide all the attractions to the "Scot" and "human", artificially humiliating the first and elevative seconds. If the philosopher-idealist in the good location of the spirit could say to himself: "nothing human is alien to me," Freud could easily say to himself: "nothing is alien to me." Julia Borisovna also warns students from an erroneous position that psychologists often occupy with greater scientific experience. "The problems of human life," they say, "no, I don't do it." And what else can and should a scientist do, if not the problems of human life?
Let's be honest with themselves and say so: There are no sciences, there is only one science, this science can only be natural, and psychology is a natural science that studies the psyche as a brain function. Humanitarian and humanistic psychology is not psychology, but it refers to psychology in the same way as Paralympic games belong to the Olympic. There are natural sciences for healthy scientists and there are humanitarian paranasuki (including parapsychology) for people with disabilities of mental labor.
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