The fate of consciousness as a scientific concept is one of the most ironic paradoxes in the history of psychology. Once the central issue, the very essence of what psychology was all about, it is nowadays a peripheral concern, an antiquated idea about as useful as ether and phlogiston are to physicists. According to Murphy and Kovach (1972, p. 51), consciousness has been a storm center in psychology for a century. Some regard it as an unfortunate and superfluous assumption Others regard consciousness as only one of many expressions of psychological reality; indeed many psychologists think that the recognition of a psychological realm far greater than the conscious realm is the great emancipating principle of all modem psychology.
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Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2014). Attention and the holistic approach to behavior. In Flow and the Foundations of Positive Psychology: The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pp. 1–20). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9088-8_1
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