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| The Psychocultural Theory of Descriptive Psychology and Its Effects——With a Discussion of the HistoricalRelationship between Psychology and Culture |
| Wang Shenlian |
| (Mental Health Research Institute， Nanjing Xiaozhuang University， Nanjing 210017) |
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Abstract The coexistence， interaction and mutual construction between human psychology and culture in life practice and life relations determine the supposedly “cultural character” of science of psychology in the ontological sense. Since the birth of psychology as a science， the cultural awareness of human science psychologists has been generally much stronger than that of natural science psychologists， and they have been the main promoters of the historical connection between psychology and culture. As the first form of psychology as a human science， descriptive psychology， especially the descriptive psychology in the romantic tradition， put forwards abundant and clear ideas about the psychocultural theory. The psychocultural theory has a direct or indirect impact on that of Wilhelm Wundt’s folk psychology， psychoanalytic psychology， existential psychology， the Vygotskian school psychology， and the contemporary cultural psychology. It is very necessary for psychologists to develop their own cultural awareness， not only at the specific research level， but also at the level of disciplinary construction.
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Received: 23 September 2022
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2022, Vol. 61 
