From the Publisher
“This integrative masterpiece exemplifies the best of cognitive science. It pursues a synoptic integration of many different literatures to generate a new, highly plausible framework for understanding the mind. Henriques is a modern Aristotle whose overarching vision is not only cogently and rigorously argued, but it also affords a conceptual vocabulary and theoretical grammar for the scientifically grounded practice of psychotherapy and the existential understanding of the human condition needed to address the current meaning crisis. This book should be required reading for any undergraduate psychology program, and it should be studied and discussed in depth within graduate programs. The field of psychology needs to be transformed in a way that can address both its internal problems and the external problems of mind and mental health facing the world today. Henriques book does this masterfully.” (John Vervaeke, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Toronto, Canada, and author of Awakening from the Meaning Crisis)
“We live in an age that requires a new and better vision of what psychology is and can be, which is to say that today we need a new metapsychology. Gregg Henriques offers one of the most comprehensive and academically rigorous metapsychological visions available today. Moving across ‘Big History,’ epistemology, and nearly every subfield of psychology, Henriques offers an impressive metamodern synthesis, and provocative cultural play. If this book has the reception it deserves, the field of psychology will never be the same.” (Dr.Zak Stein, Co-Founder Civilizational Research Institute & Consilience Project, Co-President; Center for World Philosophy and Religion, USA. Author of Education in a Time Between Worlds: Essays on the Future of Schools, Technology, and Society)
“A New Synthesis for Solving the Problem of Psychology is a dazzlingly ambitious attempt to close the gap between lawful objective and contextual interpersonal science; a gap left wanting since the advent of the Enlightenment. Through the promising voice of metamodernism – along with synthetic elegance – Henriques moves us toward a fuller, richer, and wiser psychological worldview.” (Kirk J. Schneider, Ph.D., author of Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy, The Spirituality of Awe, and the forthcoming Life-Enhancing Anxiety: Key to a Sane World)