In
modern academic psychology, one attempts to gain knowledge of man through careful observation of his behavior in controlled situations.
Behaviorism grew out of Ivan Pavlov's work with the conditioned reflex, and laid the foundations for
academic psychology in the United States associated with the names of John B.
This is more glaringly true of the picture drawn
by academic psychology than of that drawn by depth psychology.
«Cognitive psychology» is a name given to a new and more realistic and disabused attitude to the life of the mind and is not so much radically different from
classic academic psychology, as it is more focused on certain avenues of investigation.
Olson's research on the social development of transgender youth has expanded the traditional boundaries
of academic psychology.
Modern psychology has been basically Greek, and its two major forms,
academic psychology and depth psychology, have remarkable analogies respectively with Homeric and Socratic views of man.
I followed a career in
academic psychology and secured positions at good universities, and I have even been promoted.