Analysis Of Psychology Under The Law Of Development In The Perspective Of Philosophy In Psychology

The science of psychology studies the psychological action and behavior of human beings and animals. The whole development history of western psychology can be divided into two sections according to the historical affair that psychology broke away from philosophy and became an independent science in 1879.The period before 1879 when psychology was a part of philosophy makes up the first section. The latter section refers to the psychology's development after!879. During the more-than-one-hundred-year development history after independence, psychology has always been disintegrating due to two researching directions (scientificalism and humanism )in it. So the subject of psychology's integration has become a heated topic in the study of theoretical psychology at present.The practice of psychology's integration might be accomplished under the instruction of the law of psychology's development, based on which and enlighten by the knowledge concerned in philosophy of science, the thesis explores the law of psychology's development from the angle of philosophy in psychology. The thesis first states the primary category and proposition of philosophy in psychology, then excavates, sifts and analyzes the vital historical events happening in the developing process of pre-psychology and modern psychology, finally searches the distinguished Chinese psychologists' practice and viewpoints on introducing and spreading western psychology In China. From all the above-mentioned, the thesis has got the findings: scientific psychology has always been the main aspect in the science of psychology and scientificalism the dominant idea in western psychology's development; the conflict and fusion of scientific and humanistic psychology from the angle of culture, philosophy and logic form two basic threads in modern western psychology's development; modern western psychology grows through revolutions; modern western psychology attaches great importance to human nature instead of ignoring it as in the past.Law serves as guide to practice. Under the instruction of the above-described law, the thesis puts forward several new proposals for the practice of psychology's integration: establishing the unified instruction of materialist dialectics as a theoretical basis of methodology in psychology, in which the concrete positive and humanistic researching means can co-exist peacefully; building an integrated viewpoint of science, in which there might be various psychological researches and an integration in psychology with difference can be attained.