Haaga David A F
Department of Psychology, American University, Washington, DC 20016-8062, USA.
J Clin Psychol. 2004 Dec;60(12):1227-9. doi: 10.1002/jclp.20063.
"Psychology," like many abstract terms, is difficult to define precisely. Henriques' (this issue) argument that psychology, though unified and coherent, actually spans two realms-psychological formalism ("the science of mind," this issue) and human psychology ("the science of human behavior at the individual level," this issue)-seems likely to improve the clarity of the concept. The strongest contribution of his analysis may be its placing "psychology" in the larger conceptual framework of the Tree of Knowledge taxonomy.
“心理学”和许多抽象术语一样，很难给出精确的定义。亨里克斯（本期）认为，心理学虽然是统一且连贯的，但实际上跨越了两个领域——心理形式主义（“心智科学”，本期）和人类心理学（“个体层面的人类行为科学”，本期）——这一观点似乎有助于提升该概念的清晰度。他的分析最有力的贡献或许在于将“心理学”置于知识树分类法这一更大的概念框架之中。
