Psychology is a modern disunified science, which means it ha great power to produce new scientific knowledge through creating new concepts, methods, findings, principles, and theories in addressing an infinity of phenomena. As a disunified science, however, it has not developed the means by which to interrelate the chaos of knowledge elements it produces. So it is organized for disunity. It is broken into an ever increasing number of specialized fields that do not connect to each other, each producing multitudes of disparate materials that make the task of unification ever more difficult. Because of the huge number of knowledge elements the individual psychologist is forced to be a specialist. And this means there is no understanding in the science of the value of unification or how to achieve it.

Launching an overarching unified theory in such a science is presently impossible or close to it. While parts of the theory may be recognized as valuable for specific fields, there is no community of scientists interested in or prepared to use and test such a theory. That is why this website may be crucial, a way of introducing the theory, in its wide scope, but in a form that is abbreviated and capable of being examined by a large audience of specialists who otherwise would not be able to devote time to a complete presentation of the theory. Perhaps in this way the possibilities of grand unified theory can be illustrated.

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