Lewin, Kurt

Lewin, Kurt (1947). Frontiers in Group Dynamics Concepts, Method and ReaUty in Social Science Social Equilibria and Social Change. In Human Relations, Vol 1, No 1, pp 5-41. 

Nevertheless an opportunity is being lost by this disavowal of the more abstract elements of research activity. Kurt Lewin (1951 169) is often cited for his line There is nothing so practical as a good theory (or conceptual scheme) and Gergen (1983 105) observes that by pointing the way to hidden or relevant factors theory thus stands available to expand the scope and sophistication of the practitioner s program. ... 

It was Louis Lewin, of Phantastica fame, who first suggested that banister-ine might be useful in the treatment of diseases of the nervous system. And it was Kurt Beringer, of der Meskalinrausch fame, who ran the first clinical study using banisterine on 15 patients with postencephalitic parkinsonism, in 1928. Other studies reinforced the virtues of this drug. Initially, doses of 20 or 40 mg were... 

There s nothing so practical as a good theory."—Kurt Lewin... 

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