Descriptive psychology is primarily a conceptual framework for the science of psychology.
Created in its original form by Peter G. Ossorio at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the mid-1960s,[1][2] it has subsequently been applied to domains such as psychotherapy,[3] artificial intelligence,[4][5] organizational communities,[6] spirituality,[7] research methodology,[8] and theory creation.
[9] The original impulse for the creation of DP was dissatisfaction with mainstream approaches to the science of psychology,[1] thinking that psychology had paid insufficient attention to the creation of a foundational conceptual framework such as other sciences possessed.
Later authors noted that this lack of a conceptual scaffolding was responsible for the fragmentation of psychology; i.e. for its lack of any unifying, broadly accepted "standard model.
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