ABSTRACT

The reader, or skimmer, is owed a final summing up. The approach adopted in this book has been determined by the following underlying premises:

• Psychology as a discipline is a product of the ‘psychologies’ of those within the discipline. It is therefore necessarily reflexive in character. The Psychological knowledge Psychology produces directly articulates and expresses the psychological character of the psychologists producing it-their ways of thinking, their priorities, attitudes, values, and so on.