ABSTRACT
Like psychology, the humanities have a long history of descent from antiquity and a comparatively brief history of emergence as distinctively recognized fields of study. Earlier histories have uncovered and covered both similar and different lines of descent and emergence. In the contemporary academy, the humanities include, but are not exhausted by, literature and linguistics, history and historiography, musicology, theatre, art, media, religious and cultural studies, and the philosophical and theoretical study of these and related disciplines and undertakings. The emphasis on science today has become dogma. In textbooks, curricula, accreditation criteria, licensing examinations, and elsewhere in psychology, science has been given exclusive rights to our identity”. When so much contemporary psychology unfolds in empirical study after study reporting aggregated data and its analysis, it is easy to lose a sense of the individuals studied as particular persons. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
