The amateurish psychological analyses our mothers make and the study of social psychology must each be abandoned by those interested in developing a truly scientific study of cognition. Similarly, any school of psychology which refers to the referents or semantic elements of mentalistic terms must be dismissed as unlikely to contribute to the science of cognition. This would include such additi...

Social psychology has a unique position among the sciences. It is placed at the intersection of the psychological (the universe of mental processes inside the head) and the social (the external universe of interpersonal interactions and group ties). In principle, this position gives us as a field an unusual perspective, because our research practices and conceptual models have to take both of t...

Central figures in the phenomenological tradition, such as Aron Gurwitsch, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, drew extensively on gestalt psychology their writings. The dialogue between phenomenology they began continues today field of embodied cognitive science. We take up this conversation starting from Gurwitsch’s rich analysis perception cultural world. descriptions world bear a s...

Cognitive Linguistics (CL) is one of the principal branches of “second generation cognitive science”—the alliance of new approaches emerging from what has been called the “second cognitive revolution” of the last decade of the 20 century (Harré and Gillett, 1994). It is also the rightful inheritor of an older tradition, antedating the behaviorist ascendancy in mid-20 century psychology from whi...

In lectures and writings in the decades following publication of Studies Ethnomethodology [1967], Harold Garfinkel, founder ethnomethodology, developed what he called a “misreading” phenomenological Aron Gurwitsch, Maurice Merleau-Ponty others. Garfinkel’s included selective creative treatment themes that Gurwitsch drew from Gestalt psychology, such as figure-ground, contexture, phenomenal fiel...

Abstract This article emphasizes the importance of synchronization in changing patients’ dysfunctional patterns thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to functional ones. Furthermore, concept psychotherapy is delineated herein, showing its feasibility through free energy principle. Most sync-oriented publications focus on therapist-patient relationship. In contrast, this focusing therapeutic process...