The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance

A fascinating glimpse of what science and medicine might be like if we could work to "re-humanize" them. Maslow contrasts humanistic science with value-free, orthodox science, and offers a new knowledge paradigm to replace classical "scientific objectivity". This eBook edition contains the complete 168 page text of the original 1966 hardcover edition. Contents: Preface by Abraham H. Maslow Acknowledgments 1. Mechanistic and Humanistic Science 2. Acquiring Knowledge of a Person as a Task for the Scientist 3. The Cognitive Needs Under Conditions of Fear and of Courage 4. Safety Science and Growth Science: Science as a Defense 5. Prediction and Control of Persons? 6. Experiential Knowledge and Spectator Knowledge 7. Abstracting and Theorizing 8. Comprehensive Science and Simpleward Science 9. Suchness Meaning and Abstractness Meaning 10. Taoistic Science and Controlling Science 11. Interpersonal (I - Thou) Knowledge as a Paradigm for Science 12. Value-Free Science 13. Stages, Levels, and Degrees of Knowledge 14. The Desacralization and the Resacralization of Science Endnotes Bibliography Index