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• Psychoanalysis
  # a systematized set of theories about human behavior; ...arious approaches in treatment called "psychoanalysis" vary as much as the theories do. The term also refers to a method of studying [[child development]].
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• Applied behavior analysis
  ...there are no explanations that cannot be observed. There are no mystical, metaphysical explanations, hidden treatment, or magic.<ref name="Heward"/> Thus, ABA pro ...should apply a behavior analytic theory of change (see [[Behavioral change theories]]). This formulation should include a thorough functional assessment, a ski
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• Depth psychology
  ...s]] into account. The term has come to refer to the ongoing development of theories and therapies pioneered by [[Pierre Janet]], [[William James]], [[Sigmund F The initial work and development of the theories and therapies by Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, [[Alfred Adler]] and [[Otto Rank
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• Phenomenology (philosophy)
  ...en'' in 1913, many phenomenologists took a critical stance towards his new theories. Especially the members of the [[Munich phenomenology|Munich group]] distan ...ut the world arising from, for example, natural or scientific attitudes or theories of the [[ontology|ontological]] nature of the world.
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• Existentialism
  ...ilosopher, Marcel found his philosophical starting point in a condition of metaphysical alienation; the human individual searching for harmony in a transient life. ...s]] specific historical conditions of human existence into ontological and metaphysical characteristics. Existentialism thus becomes part of the very ideology whic
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• Alfred Adler
  ...l Marx|Marx's]] social idealism yet distanced himself from Marx's economic theories). The metaphysical thread of Adlerian theory does not problematise the notion of teleology sin
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• History of psychology
  ...red. Behaviorists considered knowledge of the "[[mind]]" too [[metaphysics|metaphysical]] to achieve scientifically. The final decades of the 20th century saw the ...rse Harvey's model of the circulation of the blood, but disagreed with his metaphysical framework to explain it. Descartes dissected animals and human cadavers and
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...atisfied him, and he couldn't see "dedicating himself to [[Philosophy#Main theories|Speculation]]".<ref>Johannes Climacus, by Søren Kierkegaard p. 29</ref> He ...ting and having doubted. Modern philosophy, being abstract, is floating in metaphysical indeterminateness. Instead of explaining this about itself and then directi
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• Martin Heidegger
  ...which their theories derive, and since they have incorrectly applied those theories universally, they have confused our understanding of being and human existe ...ues fascist and racist ideas are so woven into the fabric of Heidegger’s theories that they no longer deserve to be called philosophy. . . . Richard Wolin, t
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• Edmund Husserl
  ...serl concentrated on the ideal, essential structures of consciousness. The metaphysical problem of establishing the material reality of what we perceive was of lit ...l. We could establish theories of possible relations between pure forms of theories, investigate these logical relations and the deductions from such general c
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• William James
  ...different forms of [[religious experience]], which also included the then theories on Mind cure.<ref name=James>{{cite book|last1=James|first1=William|title=T ...auncey Wright]] that evolved into a lively group informally known as [[The Metaphysical Club]] in 1872. [[Louis Menand]] speculates that the Club provided a founda
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• John Dewey
  ...from ''Bowling Green State University'']</ref><ref>[[Louis Menand]], ''The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in the United States''. New York: Farrar, Staus and ...tom Public]]'' (1925); ''[[Experience and Nature]]'' (1925), Dewey's most "metaphysical" statement; ''[[Art as Experience]]'' (1934), Dewey's major work on aesthet
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