Education · Boston College
Psychology is a modern discipline with a unique history which has served particular societal and political purposes. These purposes have frequently had adverse effects on the discipline's developmental trajectory, contributing to a narrowing of its epistemological and methodological commitments. Contemporary psychology suffers the ongoing effects of the narrowing, oftern deploying methods (e.g., natural scientific paradigms) that are ill-suited to its subject-human persons. The emerging field of psychological humanities seeks to restore to psychology a more pluralistic means of understanding o
