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From Racing Horses to Seeing the Elephant

Henriques, Gregg

Pages: 3 –27

[What if the field of psychology had a unified theory that virtually all agreed was the correct one? What if, as a group, we psychologists could clearly define the discipline, unite the various psychological paradigms into a coherent meta-paradigm, and clarify psychology’s relationship to the...

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The Problem of Psychology

Henriques, Gregg

Pages: 29 –42

[Sigmund Koch was one of the premier scholars of psychology. He devoted his formidable intellect to analyzing the discipline’s conceptual foundations and through intensive study he came to the conclusion that there simply was no elephant. In Koch’s estimation, psychology was not andcould not be a...

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Behavioral Investment Theory

Henriques, Gregg

Pages: 45 –80

[So there you are on the couch watching TV when an Oreo® cookie ad activates in you a desire to get a glass of milk. It has been a long day, and you are feeling a little spent. A small calculation takes place—almost subconsciously—as you decide whether it is worth the effort to get up and pour...

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The Influence Matrix

Henriques, Gregg

Pages: 81 –111

[“And so I became an emotional stone,” said Eduardo1 to me stoically after he relayed some powerful stories from his childhood. He and his ex-wife Maria had come to therapy because their 7-year-old son, Juan, was having difficulty during weekend transition periods. Juan was emotionally reactive...

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The Justification Hypothesis

Henriques, Gregg

Pages: 113 –152

[On June 11, 1963, an elderly Buddhist monk named Thich Quang Duc calmly walked to the center of a circle of protesters, sat down on a cushion, and meditated in the lotus position as he was doused by his religious brothers in a specially concocted mix of gasoline and diesel fuel. He then...

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The Tree of Knowledge System

Henriques, Gregg

Pages: 153 –178

[The fourth and final piece of the unified theory is the Tree of Knowledge (ToK) System, which attempts to provide a macro-level conception of context that gives us a way to place our hard-won scientific facts into an overarching conception of context that allows the truth to emerge. In the first...

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Defining Psychology

Henriques, Gregg

Pages: 181 –207

[We are now in a position to address one of the key issues in this book and offer up a solution to the problem of psychology. Recall that my intellectual journey began with a realization that the fragmentation in psychotherapy represented a huge problem that was preventing the advancement of the...

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Toward a Unified Psychotherapy

Henriques, Gregg

Pages: 209 –243

[Single-school approaches dominated the practice of psychotherapy in the 1960s and 1970s. The majority of therapists identified with a particular school of thought (e.g., psychoanalytic, behavioral, or humanistic), tended to see their model as representing truth, and many engaged in...

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The Fifth Joint Point

Henriques, Gregg

Pages: 247 –270

[What kinds of creatures are we? Why do we do what we do? Where are we headed? What should we be doing? These are the questions that humans have struggled with since the capacity to ask them first emerged. And with such questions came the first collective systems of justification that ultimately...

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Epilogue: The Future of the Discipline

Henriques, Gregg

Pages: 271 –271

[Psychologists reading this last chapter may have noticed something rather peculiar. The audience, which for the rest of the book has generally been psychologists, now becomes “the academy.” In point of fact, the concluding chapter does not even include the word psychology. Instead it grapples...

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