Critical Mindfulness of Psychology’s Mindlessness
摘要
This chapter argues that mainstream psychology has mainly acted from the perspective of the observer and not the perspective of the actor, and this has largely silenced the reality of the actor. Psychology’s infatuation with precision, objectivity, universality, refutability, and verifiability brought about a focus on the legitimacy of the perspective of the knower, namely the expert who, at the center of discourse of power, could collect and analyze the data and then embark on generalizing the information for the sake of generative theories. The chapter calls for questioning the unquestionability of the perspective of the observer and indicates how the process of questioning may help us understand the often concealed-to-oblivion dimensions of the actors.