Wynn Schwartz Ph.D Archive
In the behavioral sciences it is often very difficult to know if we are on the same page. This confusion plagues many of our discussions. How do we define our terms? How do we manage useful disagreement? Are we even …
"The confusion and barrenness of psychology is not to be explained by calling it a young science....For in psychology there are experimental methods and conceptual confusion....The existence of experimental methods make us think we have the means of solving the …
Mindful Ignorance: I, Thou and Empathy … in terms of technique: He should simply listen, and not bother about whether he is keeping anything in mind. Anyone who hopes to learn the noble game of chess from books will soon …
A Call for Papers for the 36TH Annual Meeting of The Society for Descriptive Psychology Golden, Colorado October 23-26, 2014 Steps Toward a Conceptually Adequate Human Science The Society for Descriptive Psychology invites students and established …
Personhood Beyond the Human: A Paradigm Case Formulation of Persons Below is a draft of the paper I expect to present at the Yale conference: Personhood Beyond the Human, Saturday, December 7, 2013 in New Haven. Also note the lawsuit filed …
Further thoughts on “People Make Sense: Foundations for a Human Science.” The most irrational claim about people is that they are generally irrational. This includes their ways with money. Many of the current claims of general irrationality found in the literature of …
Here’s how they look. While the through-line concept necessarily refers to a history of occurrence, their proper descriptions are only committed to the enactment of a pattern of common Significance. Any Personal Characteristic can be an aspect of a through-line description.
When the stresses of life are ordinary and manageable, most of us feel we have it together. We have a cohesive sense of ourself and the world. Things are in place and we understand how they connect. But under the …
“Dealing with heterogeneous behavior patterns as a single type of behavior does nothing toward elucidating the pattern. And yet the understanding of such full scale patterns in real life is essential for understanding the behavior of persons.” (The Behavior of …
Recently, The Boston Descriptive Psychology Study Group spent an afternoon discussing the effects of dementia. We applied the paradigm case formulation of persons described in “The Problem of Other Possible Persons.” Our starting point was the effect dementia has on …
