00000caa a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862369263 Buklod 20210118155810.0 m | | ta 210118s1980 xx r |||| u|eng d (iLib)UPBAG-00039070651 BAG rda eng ARTICLE-1732 Ho, David Y. F. author. Reflections on the development of psychology in Hongkong society students, teachers, and academic institutions David Y. F. Ho. 1980. pages 34-39 26 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (page 39). This paper reviews the development of psychology in Hong Kong society, focusing especially on the academic sphere. Encouraging achievements are noted, although serious problems arising from the transplantation of Western psychology into foreign soil may be discerned. Remarks by psychology teachers, made in private, reflect their concern that there is a basic incompatibility between the conceptual approach and values of Western psychology, as they are taught to students, and the readiness with which students are willing or able to integrate them into their lives. The remarks also point to a remarkable encapsulation and retreat form self-knowledge among students. It is argued that a radical change in the approach to psychology in Hong Kong is needed: to help students to relate psychology life, and more generally. to work toward a creative synthesis of Eastern and Western ideas - to create a new psychology, one which has indigenous roots and which all will not leave the individual with a sense of alienation from his culture. Philippine Journal of Psychology Vol. 13, Nos. 1 and 2 (1980), p. 34-39. (viewed 18 January 2021) FI UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN ARTICLE-1732 Analytics