The Missing Theory II: Further Musings on the Development of a New Zeitgeist for Clinical Psychology

Clinical adult psychology can be rejuvenated and liberated from its dependence on psychiatry by pursuing a new zeitgeist free of operationist thinking and the hypothetico-deductive analysis of its data. Such a new zeitgeist would emphasize the paramount importance of language in human behavior, as well as the cogency of an existential-theatrical approach that has its roots in the works of the 16th-century humanists rather than, as now, in the works of Newton and Descartes 100 years later.

Keywords: hypothetico-deductive research; zeitgeist; theater; existentialism;…