This Brief presents the argument for the need to re-establish the theoretical focus of general
psychology in contemporary psychological research. It begins with a detailed account of the
current crisis of psychology and our modern disconnect from general psychology. Chapters
present the works of Aristotle and A.N. Leontiev using their ideas to outline a long wanted
general psychology. The general psychology delineates the four corner posts of the domain of
psychology: Sentience Intentionality Mind and Human Consciousness and explains why they are
all necessary but not the same. Besides a historical discussion which aims to demonstrate how
Marxism got it right and then not this Brief presents a new radical theory of human evolution
which credits the Adam-and-Eve story with a vital link hitherto missed by Marxism Darwinism
and paleoanthropology. In addition it argues why a new understanding is important in the
Anthropocene Age. Catching Up with Aristotle will be of interest to psychologists
undergraduate and graduate students and researchers.
