quotations about psychology
A brief consideration of the relationship between education and psychology will be useful in the present context. Education is normative in its outlook, since it is concerned with aims, ideals, values, and standards. On the other hand, psychology is a positive science, trying to ascertain the facts of behaviour, how it develops and how it is modified. Thus psycholody is to education what physics and chemistry are to engineering, and chemistry and biology are to medicine. While it is true that psychology cannot formulate the aim of education, it must be recognized that it can help us to find out whether a given aim is practicable and possible of achievement.
BANGALORE KUPPUSWAMY
Advanced Educational Psychology
Compared to law, psychology is, chronologically speaking, entering its adulthood, and given a number of important differences between the two disciplines, it comes as no surprise that tension and conflict between them persists.
ANDREAS KAPARDIS
Psycholody and Law: A Critical Introduction
The first reason for psychology's failure to understand what people are and how they act, is that clinicians and psychiatrists, who are generally the theoreticians on these matters, have essentially made up myths without any evidence to support them; the second reason for psychology's failure is that personality theory has looked for inner traits when it should have been looking for social context.
NAOMI WEISSTEIN
"Kinder, Kuche, Kirche as Scientific Law"
Despite the burgeoning technologies in the field of "helping", on many levels psychotherapy is still a crapshoot. Some of the goal of training, I think, is to help students accept that fact. The work is part science, part art, and part luck. Learning to tolerate the anxiety inherent in that recipe is critical for any clinician.
MARTHA MANNING
Undercurrents
The field of psychology is in a state of crisis. We are no closer now to understanding the most fundamental problems of psychology than we were when psychology became a science a hundred years ago. Each of us is aware of being a unique "self", different from other people and the world around us. But the nature of the "self", which is central to all psychology, has no physiological basis in any contemporary theory and continues to elude us. The concept of "mind" is as perplexing as ever ... There is a profusion of little theories -- theories of vision, pain, behaviour-modification, and so forth -- but no broad unifying concepts.
RONALD MELZACK
attributed, Yoga Psychology and the Transformation of Consciousness