Abstract

It is a real joy to see a book published by a psychologist that doesn't accept the standard definition of psychology as the study of the behavior or the experience of the individual. It is almost the "official" definition of psychology that the isolated individual is the proper unit of analysis and object of study. Psychology has become, not a social science, but an a-social if not anti-social science, in its ignoring and denial of the social context in the development and existence of everything we call human. This is a book for all of us who know that the self-contained, isolated individual does not exist in the real world.