Rethinking Psychology: Good Science, Bad Science, Pseudoscience

by Brian M. Hughes

Balancing readability with intellectual rigour, this is an essential guide to the complex relationship between psychology, science, and pseudoscience. Unique in its focus on the philosophy of science within psychology, it critiques controversial practices and challenges the biases which threaten academic rigour within the field.

Genres: Psychology

296 pages, Paperback

Published March 3, 2016

About the author

Brian Hughes is Professor of Psychology at the University of Galway, Ireland. He has held visiting academic appointments at the Universities of Missouri, Leiden, and Birmingham, and at King's College London.

His research focuses on psychological stress and its impact on health, and on psychosocial moderators of stress processes. He also writes widely on the psychology of empiricism and of empirically disputable claims, especially as they pertain to science, health, and medicine. He holds Ph.D. and B.A. degrees from the National University of Ireland, and an Ed.M. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Reviews

[Janet Kozachek · Rating 5 out of 5]

With very much appreciated sardonic wit, the author gently informs us that we need to review the fundamentals of scientific reasoning and guides us in the process of reclaiming rational thinking. Excellent and much needed text for our time!