A current alternative to dualism in Psychology: Contextual Behavioral Science

Abstract

The article tries to verify the dualist character that still invades psychology, and how the pragmatic and philosophical problems of it have as a most useful solution to resort to a materialist monism, embodied in the figure of brain-centered reductionism. Likewise, the characteristics, philosophy and applications of the CBS (Contextual Behavioral Science) are presented in order to offer an alternative within the psychology that overcomes the prevailing dualism and preserves the independence of psychology as an autonomous field in science, among biology and sociology.