Retrospection Of Modern Psychology

Modernity thinking is born of the two ideals and a mythology established in enlightment period. It reflects in a series of ideological trend and opinion: Advocate the foundationalism , essentialism , representational ism, rationalism, centralism, individualism , etc. It emphasizes that the world as objectively given is dualist metaphysics, In the modern psychology, include scientific psychology of scientific doctrine orientation and humanism psychology of humane orientation. The two are affected by modernity thinking deeply , scientific psychology may well be termed the model, it is the result under the modernity thinking.Psychology should extricate oneself from a plight, get rid of the crisis, must jump out of modern psychology, postmodern thinking will rehear modern psychology, including its target, its method, everything until it of its philosophical foundation. And then modern thinking breaks modern two mythologies set up, against foundationalism, against essentialism, against rationalism, against individualism, it is its important characteristic to advocate pluralism. And then the implication of postmodern psychological methodology contains and behaves in four aspects: First, from objectivism to subjectivism; 2nd, to the organic whole theory from theory of reducing; Third, the centralization to going from the centralization; Fourth, from absolute truth to relative truth. In addition have numerous to relevant degree is it study to remain even.Under postmodern thinking, at research object, research approach, the principle and discipline , the great change has taken place in psychology, postmodern psychology has expanded the psychological vision, stimulus the plural thinking , has promoted practice and application. But there is it' s own limitation : the system that it sets up is not perfect, totally...