Hanegraaff described transpersonal psychology as the "theoretical wing" of this Human Potential Movement; in contrast to other schools of psychological thought, transpersonal psychology takes religious and mystical experiences seriously by exploring the uses of altered states of consciousness.
Perhaps the most influential movement arising from this strand of German psychological thought was Gestalt Psychology.
At least since Freud, one of the abiding strains in psychological thought has been the idea that our behavior is often motivated by impulses beyond conscious awareness.
The idea that children's cognitive and moral development consists of the mastery of innate concepts and instincts has become a staple of modern educational theory, and versions of it percolate through psychological thought from Dewey to Piaget to Chomsky.
Yet Ford's attorney, Roderick MacLeish Jr., dismisses recovered memory naysayers as "on the fringe" and "outside the mainstream" of psychological thought.
In many areas — scientific and psychological thought, for example — a strong correspondence conception of truth is likely to be in question.
Strawson argues that this conception collides with a basic principle about psychological thought; it says that one can ascribe experiences to oneself only if one is prepared to ascribe them to others.
That R counts in favour of X is then a normative thought that I might have in deliberating; but that I count R in favour of X is a psychological thought about the state of mind on which the expressivist's analysis focuses, a state we might programme a robot to mimic (2003, 188 191).
Its reportage is still used to support views on homosexuality that are outside the mainstream of current psychological thought.
