What is the state of contemporary Psychology, which maladies can eventually be identified, and which cure should then be prescribed? This is a central question for a Danish version of theoretical psychology: Anthropological Psychology.
The target article for this issue of this issue is written by Daniel N. Robinson, and he asks exactly this question in his own very personal and dedicated way, thereby inviting us to participate in an important discussion ”across the sea” with himself and other distinguished commentators.

• Psychology is fragmented
• Each enclave is isolated, each one only able to comprehend and explain the importance of its own projects
• The fragmentation of psychology is caused by an increasing indifference to the main core of what defines general psychology.
• There can be no accumulation of knowledge, no authentic progress when a failed theory continues to animate research

As a cure Robinson offers four features, which he sees as the most defining ones of human nature and psychology itself:

• the civic
• the moral
• the aesthetic
• the transcendental

Target article
Daniel N. Robinson: The renewal of "Psychological" Psychology.

Commentaries
Preben Bertelsen: Directedness at/by directedness
Shyam Cawasjee: Comment.
Niels Engelsted: Back to basics.
Robert P. George: Comment.
R. Peter Hobson: Comment.
Henrik Høgh-Olesen: The fundamentals of man and psychology.
Jens Mammen: Mapping the subject: The renewal of scientific psychology.
Mary Midgley: Comment.
Edward Pols: The psychologist as rational agent.
Erik Schultz: The mystery of the missing subject.
Henderikus J. Stam: Making the subject matter.
Robert J. Sternberg: Unifying psychology.
Carroll W. Westfall: The city in the image of man.
Søren Willert: The vocation of psychology.

Reply
Daniel N. Robinson: Reply to commentaries.