This tour de force of a book promises - and delivers - a coherent, consilient framework for understanding the science of psychology and its relationship to other sciences and our subjective experience. It provides the field with an urgently needed common language for the concepts and categories that make up the enterprise of psychology.
I wish I had this book to help me navigate my undergraduate and graduate school training in psychology. Better late than never – reading it now helped me to integrate what I have learned in prior years and to clearly see how the various schools of thought in psychology (behaviorism, cognitive, psychodynamic, etc.) are all actually describing various parts of an interlocking whole.
The book proposes that if agreement on what terms like behavior, mind, consciousness, and self are referencing can be achieved (and Henriques proposes carefully reasoned definitions for these terms), then the mental behavior patterns of humans and animals can be more clearly described and mapped by empirical findings.
The vision logic of the Unified Theory of Knowledge (UTOK) described in the book offers an updated view of “big history” and an inspiring vantage point to view our own human place in cosmic history. Just as knowing where you are on the map can help you travel to where you want to go, this book helps the reader understand the terrain of psychological knowledge so that we can better coordinate our future academic research and practice in psychology. For the reader who can adopt the language and lenses of UTOK, new metacognitive insights into our own thinking and feeling become possible.
With 'A New Synthesis,' Henriques affords us a comprehensive, systematic, integrative vision, a coherent, naturalistic ontology, and an architecture for our most important conversations. Solving the problem of psychology helps us see reality - and new possibilities - more clearly.
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