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How did psychology fall into this disastrous situation, in which it neglects the cardinal feature of human nature? The answer to this question must be sought in its history. If we go back to the end of the nineteenth century, we find that the psychology of those days was in fact concerned to study man’s understanding of himself and the world. But this study met various difficulties and objections, until eventually, in the early years of this century, it was largely abandoned in favour of alternative views, of which behaviourism was the chief. It was in this way that the layman’s conviction came to play so small a part in modern psychology. This book will suggest that the concepts and methods in which modern psychology has placed its faith have now unquestionably broken down. In this situation, we have much to learn from the older tradition, which had already attempted the task which we now face.
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