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William James lived at the boundaries and did his best work there. In 1890, James published his magnum opus, The Principles of Psychology, a foundational work in which he makes clear distinctions about the kinds of assumptions each discipline takes for granted and then subjects these assumptions to critical examination. For many years, this was a widely used text that uniquely blended his personal reflections with his ideas on physiology, philosophy, and psychology. Throughout the book and his career, James extravagantly crossed the boundaries of multiple disciplines. This volume is comprised of a series of in-depth interviews with ten North American scholars and clinical practitioners who have similarly spent their lengthy careers working at the interdisciplinary edges of mainstream psychological discourse.
But psychology is passing into a less simple phase. Within a few years what one may call a microscopic psychology has arisen in Germany, carried on by experimental methods, asking of course every moment for introspective data, but eliminating their uncertainty by operating on a large scale and taking statistical means.
—William James, The Principles of Psychology (1890/2007),vol. 1, p. 192
The original version of this chapter was revised in order to correct an error regarding the publication sequence and date of Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach (Robert Stolorow, 1987).
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Macdonald, H., Goodman, D., Becker, B. (2017). Dialogues at the Edge. In: Macdonald, H., Goodman, D., Becker, B. (eds) Dialogues at the Edge of American Psychological Discourse. Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59096-1_1
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