Psychology of Science

Re-humanization of Science and Medicine

The Psychology of Science is 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". There is a PDF version and an original 1966 hardcover edition available.

Contents

Preface by Abraham H. Maslow
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

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