ABSTRACT
Dr. John Brammer insisted that psychology made a big mistake when it turned away from the centrality of experience and the method of introspection, allowing behavior and behaviorism to trump human experience and meanings. Brammer explained the whole vexing controversy as a case of academic politics. "Consciousness exists", he exclaimed, "and nobody can reasonably deny that the mind is active, aware, and creative. The problem was the murkiness of consciousness. If psychology was to become a true science, it would have to clean consciousness out of the cupboard". "One must imagine Sisyphus happy", wrote Albert Camus, because he continues to struggle to achieve new heights. This is what "fills one's heart", a human being deciding to rise above the pointless struggles of life by accepting rather than denying his plight. For Camus, all that was real-all that could be known was what one could feel in his heart or touch in the world.
