Holism

• Where did holism come from

  A collective group of German researchers in the 1920s declared the whole world is greater than the sum of its parts
• What is the core basis of holism in psych

  The idea that any attempt to break up behaviour is inappropriate as these can only be understood by analysing the person or behaviour as a whole
• Instead of focusing on constituent aspects of a person e.g. genes, focus on them as a whole