This discussion initiated by Ekaterina Damer has elicited numerous suggestions from mental health professionals on Twitter. Below are the majority of those suggestions, accompanied by their respective recommenders. I haven’t personally perused these materials, but I aimed to gather them all in one location. Feel free to share your own recommendations in the comments.
(Iris van Rooij)
[“How does it work?” vs. “What are the laws?” Two accounts of psychological explanation.](https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f5b1/b05e8313aee94ccd98e80eab3ec56dbd2c97.pdf) Robert Cummins
(Ed Orehek)
[Theory Construction in Social Personality Psychology: Personal Experiences and Lessons Learned: A Special Issue of Personality and Social Psychology Review](http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15327957pspr0802_1)
(Djouria Ghilani)
[Personal Reflections on Theory and Psychology](http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0959354310378184)
Gerd Gigerenzer,
[Selected Works of Barry N. Markovsky](https://works.bepress.com/barry_markovsky/)
(almost everyone, but Tal Yarkoni expressed it this way)
“Meehl laid out nearly everything there is to convey about this”
– [Theory-testing in psychology and physics: A methodological paradox](http://meehl.umn.edu/sites/g/files/pua1696/f/074theorytestingparadox.pdf)
– [Evaluating and refining theories: The Lakatosian defense strategy and its two justifying principles](http://meehl.umn.edu/sites/g/files/pua1696/f/147appraisingamending.pdf)
– [The reasons research summaries on psychological theories are frequently inscrutable](http://meehl.umn.edu/sites/g/files/pua1696/f/144whysummaries.pdf)
(This brings to mind, [PsychBrief](https://twitter.com/PsyBrief) has been engaging with Meehl’s work and offers comprehensive summaries at this link: [Paul Meehl on philosophy of science: video lectures and papers](http://psychbrief.com/meehl-videos-papers/))
(Burak Tunca)
[What Theory is Not](http://haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/papers/stawtheory.pdf) by Robert I. Sutton & Barry M. Staw
(Joshua Skewes)
Valerie Gray Hardcastle’s “How to construct a theory in cognitive science”.
(Randy McCarthy)
Chapter 1 of Gawronski, B., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2015). Theory and explanation in social psychology. Guilford Publications.
(Kimberly Quinn)
McGuire, W. J. (1997). [Innovative hypothesis generation in psychology: Some beneficial heuristics](http://sing.stanford.edu/cs303-sp11/papers/mcguire_hypothesis_gen.pdf). Annual review of psychology, 48(1), 1-30.
(Daniël Lakens)
Jaccard, J., & Jacoby, J. (2010). Theory Construction and Model-building Skills: A Practical Guide for Social Scientists. Guilford Press.
Fiedler, K. (2004). Instruments, gadgets, principles, and theories: Reflections on the inventive cycle of theory development. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 8(2), 123–131.
(Tom Stafford)
Roberts and Pashler (2000). [How convincing is a good fit? A commentary on theory testing](https://cloudfront.escholarship.org/dist/prd/content/qt5vt0z72k/qt5vt0z72k.pdf)
The conversation indicates that the theoretical crisis will be just as complex and contentious as the crisis in methodologies.
**Updates 16 August 2018**
(Richard Prather)
Simmering et al (2010). [To Model or Not to Model? A Conversation on the Role of Computational Modeling in Developmental Science](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3103214/)
(Brett Buttliere: we created a Facebook group to discuss theory)
[Psychological Theory Discussion Group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/153619768802306/about/)
(Eric Morris)
Wilson, K. G. (2001). [Some thoughts on theoretical constructs: categories and validation from a contextual behavioral perspective](http://www.ijpsy.com/volumen1/num2/23/some-notes-on-theoretical-constructs-types-EN.pdf)
(Michael P. Grosz)
[Theoretical Amnesia](http