Andrzej Lewicki: a New Psychology and an Even Newer Paradigm
Andrzej Lewicki: a New Psychology and an Even Newer Paradigm

Summary/Abstract: There are two main reasons that the editors of the Avant magazine decided to present a fragment of a book by the psychologist Andrzej Lewicki (1910–1972) to contemporary English-speaking readers. One reason is historic. This outstanding researcher—a representative of psychology at the Lvov-Warsaw School (see Rzepa, 1997)—not only made an important contribution to Polish psychology, including clinical psychology, but his work was also on a par with contemporary world trends, and was sometimes even ahead of them. It is worth presenting these facts more widely outside the circle of Polish language users, even though the professor’s work was prematurely interrupted. The second reason looks to the future; it is related to changes in the scientific paradigm of research on cognitive processes. Both the general theoretical framework of Lewicki's works and some of his discoveries and theses seem to be extremely close to the assumptions of so-called cognitive ecology, a contemporary perspective that is also rooted in the past, especially in early research in ecological psychology. [...]

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