Lilienfeld Scott O
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
J Clin Psychol. 2004 Dec;60(12):1249-53. doi: 10.1002/jclp.20067.
Henrique's thoughtful effort (this issue) to define psychology suffers from at least three shortcomings: (a) "psychology" is almost certainly an inherently fuzzy concept that resists precise definition; (b) attempts to define psychology are likely to hamper rather than foster consilience across scientific disciplines; and (c) Henriques incorrectly diagnoses the cause of the scientist-practitioner gap and hence offers an incorrect prescription. The sources of this gap lie not in intractable definitional disputes, but in fundamentally different approaches to acquiring knowledge.
恩里克深思熟虑地试图（在本期中）界定心理学，但至少存在三个缺点：（a）“心理学”几乎肯定是一个本质上模糊的概念，难以给出精确的定义；（b）试图界定心理学很可能会阻碍而非促进各科学学科之间的整合；（c）恩里克对科学家与从业者之间差距的原因诊断错误，因此提供了一个错误的解决方案。这种差距的根源不在于棘手的定义之争，而在于获取知识的根本不同方法。
