{"title":"The Psychologist as an Expert in Behavior and Humanity: Proposing an Integrative Epistemology for Contemporary Psychology.","authors":"Jesús José Rincón León","doi":"10.1007/s12124-025-09932-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-025-09932-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This research examines the reconceptualization of the contemporary psychologist's role through an integrative epistemological approach that reconciles dual specialization in behavior and humanity. The analysis begins with the historical tension between explanation (erklären) and understanding (verstehen) in psychology, identifying how this epistemological dichotomy has systematically fragmented disciplinary identity. Through systematic review of phenomenological, existential, humanistic, transpersonal, and liberation traditions, we develop the Scientific-Humanistic Complementarity Principle (SHCP) as a theoretical framework for integrated psychological praxis. This construct presents transversal implications for academic training, empirical research, and professional intervention. Within the Latin American context, this proposal constitutes an epistemological vindication rooted in the Global South, oriented toward systematic articulation of scientific rigor with ethical understanding and human dignity. The resulting model seeks to establish scientifically rigorous psychology without compromising humanistic commitment, responding to contemporary complexity through preservation of technical rigor and existential depth.</p>","PeriodicalId":50356,"journal":{"name":"Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science","volume":"59 4","pages":"66"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145253450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Search of Manifestations and Imaginations of the Climate Crisis: A Longitudinal Analysis of an Online Diary.","authors":"Maeva Perrin, Oliver Clifford Pedersen","doi":"10.1007/s12124-025-09941-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12124-025-09941-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Crises are not all sudden and spectacular - some are incremental and manifest in unlikely places. We explore how one person's experience and imagination of the climate crisis developed across 24 years of online diary writing. This longitudinal analysis captures the subtle shifts in people's experience close to real time, allowing us to theorise when and how the climate crisis is manifested, felt, and imagined. We move beyond the common definition of crisis as an exceptional disruption in time, recognising that it can also be a slow and elusive process, and instead ask which events bring the climate crisis to the forefront of people's experience. The analysis highlights three periods with imaginative transformations, detailing a temporal realignment and gradual differentiation. Moving from a distant cloud on the horizon into the present, the diarist's imagination increasingly gains concrete and apocalyptic form. In tandem, we trace fluctuations in eco-emotions to challenge static and linear categorisations, suggesting that the dichotomy between indirect and direct manifestations is intimately entangled through time and scaffold the imagination. Our research attempts to provide a dynamic and contextually sensitive approach to study and understand how the climate crisis is experienced and imagined over time.</p>","PeriodicalId":50356,"journal":{"name":"Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science","volume":"59 4","pages":"65"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12488825/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145201598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Onto-Rhythmic Self: An Ontological Reframing of Subjectivity.","authors":"Mohammad Dawood Rahimi","doi":"10.1007/s12124-025-09937-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12124-025-09937-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the present work of intellect, we introduce a novel approach to selfhood, the Onto-Rhythmic Self, situated within a participatory ontology in which Consciousness and Time function not as substrates but as expressive modalities of Being. Through a comparative critique of Husserl's transcendental ego and Dennett's narrative self, we classify four axes of limitation: the Who of subjectivity, the How of temporal articulation, the What of ontological grounding, and the Why of existential necessity. To address such lacunae, we use a multi-layered method combining comparative ontological analysis, phenomenological reflection, and expressive mapping. Such a method discloses the limitations of synthesis (Husserl) and simulation (Dennett) and instead articulate the self as a modulatory field of Being-a dynamic site where rhythm, resonance, and relational articulation converge. The outcome features that the Onto-Rhythmic Self is neither a transcendental subject nor a computational fiction, but an ontological inscription that discloses across neural, cultural, ecological, and quantum strata. Its implications extend across domains: philosophically, it reframes individuation as ontic emergence; clinically, it reorients therapy toward rhythmic re-attunement; and artistically, it reconceives creation as ontological modulation rather than symbolic representation. By restoring depth, relational presence, and semantic coherence to the discourse on selfhood, through the Onto-Rhythmic Self, we add a structurally rigorous and experientially faithful grammar of consciousness, which is a new mode of listening to the rhythm of Being.</p>","PeriodicalId":50356,"journal":{"name":"Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science","volume":"59 4","pages":"64"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12488777/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145201635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notes from Self-Isolation: Imagination in Times of Ruptures.","authors":"Hana Hawlina, Tania Zittoun","doi":"10.1007/s12124-025-09904-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12124-025-09904-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Covid-19 pandemic brought about an unprecedented global health crisis, which caused a seismic disruption of people's lives, their habitual practices, systems of meanings, and relationship to the past and the future. This contribution will explore how a group of 17 participants who wrote a collective diary during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Slovenia (March-May 2020) experienced the crisis as a personal and collective rupture, and what were the functions of the imagination in managing uncertainty, constructing new meanings, and ultimately adapting to the novel situation. Based on the diary data, we find that the global pandemic crisis was experienced as a rupture along four central dimensions: temporality, spatiality, sociality, and embodiment. Drawing on the conceptualisation of the imagination in sociocultural psychology, we have identified the functions of the imagination in different stages of adaptation to the rupture (e.g., experiencing the rupture, meaning-making, distanciation, symbolic mobility, temporal projection), and observed how people use symbolic resources to make sense of the situation, cope with the uncertainty, and construct new imaginings of the future. We thus posit that the imagination plays a central role in repairing ruptures, both in terms of semantic reconfiguration and guiding future-oriented action.</p>","PeriodicalId":50356,"journal":{"name":"Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science","volume":"59 4","pages":"63"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12454583/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145126167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Motivation and Time: Motivational Congruence Theory's Stance.","authors":"Rosa Hendijani","doi":"10.1007/s12124-025-09928-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12124-025-09928-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Time is an essential manifestation of human motivation. Its existence is fundamental for mental causation and free will. Despite time's unwavering importance, an unresolved debate exists regarding the actuality of time, known as the problem of time, in physics and philosophy. It asks whether time characteristics, including passage and duration are veridical. In physics, there are different perspectives regarding time. Classical approaches based on relativity theories and 4-dimensional block universe consider time to be illusory (i.e., based on an imaginaryconstruction of human mind). However, recent approaches, including the process theories (e.g., extended versions of relativity theory) assert that time is actual. Similarly, in philosophy, there are differing perspectives regarding time. Some philosophers believe that time as a passing phenomenon is unreal, whereas others argue that it is actual and exists as a reality of the world, separate from human imagination. Bergson and subsequent philosophers argue that time is actual and duration is a continual process through which one realizes his/her existence. In the motivation literature, duration is generally used as a measure of motivation. Cognitive evaluation and self-determination theories use duration in the form of free-choice behavior as a measure of intrinsic motivation (i.e., inherent interest). Motivational congruence theory (MCT) introduces overall motivation (i.e., the dialectical and dynamic interaction between intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, and context) and extends the concept of duration to assess it. The paper explains how MCT addresses the problem of time by solving mental causation and free will problems and illustrating duration as a reflection of overall motivation. This perspective on time matches advanced approaches in physics and philosophy.</p>","PeriodicalId":50356,"journal":{"name":"Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science","volume":"59 3","pages":"62"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144818134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hartmut Giest, Bento Selau, Nelson Luiz Reyes Marques
{"title":"Attention as a Higher Psychic Function.","authors":"Hartmut Giest, Bento Selau, Nelson Luiz Reyes Marques","doi":"10.1007/s12124-025-09922-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12124-025-09922-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of this article is to contribute to a better understanding of the psychological problem of human attention and its development. At the center of the theoretical analysis is attention as a Higher Psychic Function, determined not by biological factors, but by cultural-historical ones. We believe that the results of the analysis can contribute to a better understanding of the development of this psychical function in order to address pedagogical and psychological challenges related to the development of attention and in particular to attention deficits (not only) in primary school pupils. This is necessary as their importance is growing now and in the future, which also makes it necessary to discuss the value of medicinal treatment critically. By characterizing the cultural-historical nature of attention, its connection with interests and needs as well as with the development of abstract thinking and the formation of concepts, it becomes evident that the development of attention, interests and (cultural) needs first of all result from learning in the dialectical unit with pedagogical activity. This also clarifies the importance of adequate educational approaches and the role of medicinal intervention for attention deficits.</p>","PeriodicalId":50356,"journal":{"name":"Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science","volume":"59 3","pages":"61"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144785859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rasmus Birk, Sarah Kirkegaard Jensen, Noomi Matthiesen, Bo Allesøe Christensen
{"title":"Situated Psychology: A Sketch.","authors":"Rasmus Birk, Sarah Kirkegaard Jensen, Noomi Matthiesen, Bo Allesøe Christensen","doi":"10.1007/s12124-025-09927-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12124-025-09927-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article-and this special issue-focuses on situated psychology. The purpose of this article is to provide a brief theoretical outline of what situated psychology is. If the reader wonders why they are not immediately familiar with the term 'situated psychology,' there is a simple explanation: it is a new concept (except for Phillip Cushman's argument that psychology should be \"historically situated\" (Cushman, 1990). However, despite the novelty of the name for the concept, it draws on a wide range of psychological traditions-ecological psychology, situated learning theory, 4E cognition, critical psychology, and more. The ambition of this article is thus to unfold a multifaceted theoretical perspective that understands situatedness as involving environment/culture/relations/context, but also as something other than just a framework within which human behavior unfolds.</p>","PeriodicalId":50356,"journal":{"name":"Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science","volume":"59 3","pages":"60"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12313792/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144754974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Fragmented Mind: Altered States of Consciousness and Spirit Possession Between Rituals and Therapy.","authors":"Donato Giuseppe Leo","doi":"10.1007/s12124-025-09929-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12124-025-09929-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper focuses on understanding how cultural influences, social expectancy, and personal beliefs shape the perception of altered states of consciousness and how these mental states have been interpreted as a way to communicate with the spiritual world. Altered states of consciousness are commonly encountered in religious, spiritual, and therapeutic (e.g., hypnosis) practices. While neurophysiological aspects of altered states of consciousness are an important part of understanding the nature of human consciousness, the cultural meaning that these states of mind assume in different communities is equally fundamental. The phenomenon of spirit possession is a meaningful example of how sociocultural factors influence and shape the perception of altered states of consciousness. An understanding of the meaning of spirit possession as a tool to \"exorcise\" individual trauma or to address communal fears and turmoil is provided here. From the historical concept of the supernatural nature of physical and mental illness through the discussion of rituals aiming at casting out or taming the possessing spirit, this paper wants to provide an understanding of how sociocultural factors have been determinant in embedding altered states of consciousness in religious and spiritual practices, and how these states are of therapeutic value for mental wellbeing.</p>","PeriodicalId":50356,"journal":{"name":"Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science","volume":"59 3","pages":"59"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12310872/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144745873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Analysis of Hikikomori in Haruki Murakami's Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage Through New Historicist Approach.","authors":"Sowndharya T R, Abirami Kanagarajan","doi":"10.1007/s12124-025-09924-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12124-025-09924-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Japan is renowned for its cutting-edge lifestyle and remarkable progress in sci-tech, becoming ahead of many other countries that sets apart on the global stage. Alongside this evident progress, there are unnoticed detrimental effects on individuals such as psychological suffering experienced by millions of Japanese due to extreme work pressure. Various stress-related problems are significant that greatly impacts their personal lives. One such agonizing concern is Hikikomori which means severe social isolation. The celebrated Japanese author, Haruki Murakami, offers insights into the contemporary life through subtle yet poignant narration that deftly captures the essence of society in his narratives. Although his characters do not directly reflect the people around him, they embody the broader difficulties and challenges in the society, hinting at potential solutions frequently. Steering through his novel Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, the current research paper delves into Hikikomori exploring its inferences of social isolation in Japan. By applying New Historicism, the study examines how Haruki Murakami's work highlights this rife issue and its repercussions on society, connecting to SDG 3. It furthermore investigates the cardinal causes of this issue among Japanese youth as observed in 2014, also discussing the effects of this issue today.</p>","PeriodicalId":50356,"journal":{"name":"Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science","volume":"59 3","pages":"58"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144660942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mirroring the Self through Hamlet Affective Aesthetic Experience.","authors":"Maria Impedovo","doi":"10.1007/s12124-025-09926-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12124-025-09926-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50356,"journal":{"name":"Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science","volume":"59 3","pages":"57"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144638593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}