ABSTRACT

Broadly speaking, there are two main streams in Modern Psychology, or perhaps it would be better to say two main currents of one stream, for as far as we can see, the underlying assumptions and motives are largely the same in the two. One current is represented by what is known as the Behaviourist School, the chief exponents of which are Watson, Holt, and Leuba; and the other by the School of Psychoanalysis, represented mainly by Freud, Jung, and their disciples. These two Schools differ profoundly in some aspects of their teaching, but they have also a great deal in common, and it is mainly in the region of their common assumptions and attitudes that they are making their chief contribution to, and exercising their main influence on, psychological thought in these days. Let us consider what these common elements are.