Abstract

BARRETO, Carmem Lúcia Brito Tavares. The dispersion of psychological thinking. Bol. psicol [online]. 2008, vol.58, n.129, pp. 147-160. ISSN 0006-5943.

The extended dispersion as a mark in the Psychological thinking is well known, due to the employment of different epistemological, conceptual and methodological perspectives. Such a process has been expressed through the production of many and diverse theories end systems, mainly in the first half of the XX century. This situation resulted in an intense crisis that has been discussed by some historical psychologists, with the aim to think about the so-called unity for the Psychological knowledge, mainly among the participants of the behavioral movement. In this present work, the problematic dispersion will be pursued by presenting the diversity of systems and projects that aimed to characterize Psychology as an emergent science. It will be presented the different paths for the Psychological thinking by their concepts and methods in order to give that the dispersion in the Psychological field is inevitable.

Keywords : Dispersion of the psychological thinking; Theories and systems in Psychology; History of Psychology.

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