Abstract: Marxism has become prevalent among Freudianism & Humanistic psychology and other psychology schools in contemporary Western psychology research. It is very important for rethinking the status and value of Marxism on the research of psychology to review and analysis the Marxism orientation of psychoanalysis psychology, humanistic psychology, positivism psychology, feminist psychology, dialectical psychology, and critical psychology. It is Marxism theory that provides a salutary lesson when more and more methods are being created in the world of psychology research which blocked the development of the discipline of psychology. Critical Psychology becomes the tendency of psychological research of the Marxists. To overcome the crisis of modern psychology theory and the difficult situation, and to introspect the problem in the new age, it is necessary to retreat the position of Marxism and dialectical materialism in psychology, Meanwhile, when absorbing and integrating methodology virtues of natural sciences and humanities science, we should insist on the principles that dialectical materialism led the development. since the emergence and development of Marxism Orientation in psychology, by its own scientific, depth, and the logic of power, Marxism plays an extremely important role to have launched a round and another round of attacks on the empiricism, positivism, mechanism, reductionism of Western mainstream psychology, not only for overcoming the poverty ills of contemporary psychological theory, but also for offering much useful enlightenment for the future of psychology. The new international Marxism orientation in psychology is a return to Marxism, which provides new ideas and methodologies of psychology research, and reflects the new vitality of Marxism and scientific innovation. It has made a great contribution to the development for the research on Western Marxism psychology. Therefore, to study and summarize new progress and achievements on Marxism orientation in Western psychology, it will be of self-evident importance as far as both academic significance and practical value are concerned, for the purpose of responding the challenges of the contemporary social trends and richening the study of psychology under the guidance of tradition dialectical materialism.

Key words: Western psychology, Marxism, orientation, salutary lesson

摘要： 当今国外心理学研究的各流派中涌现出了马克思主义新取向。这显示了马克思主义思想要素的影响力及其对心理学科发展的积极贡献，体现出马克思主义新的生命活力和科学创新精神。但同时，心理学的马克思主义取向研究也遇到了巨大的阻抗力量，马克思主义也面临着严峻的考验。当前，如何认识心理学研究中马克思主义的理论资源，在辩证唯物主义精神的指引下推动心理学的研究，是中国心理学界需要进一步研究和解决的重大问题之一。

关键词: 西方心理学, 马克思主义, 研究取向, 借鉴意义