Paul C. Vitz

Modern psychology, like Caesar’s Gaul, has classically been divided into three parts: there is experimental psychology, test-and-measurement psychology, and therapeutic psychology. All three branches have been in steady operation since the late nineteenth century, and in all three of them one . . . . Continue Reading »

Freudian Fraud: The Malignant Effect of Freud’s Theory on American Thought and Culture by E. Fuller Torrey, M.D. HarperCollins, 362 pages, $25 This book has its flaws, especially with regard to Freudian thought, but its contributions to our understanding of how Freudian concepts were used to . . . . Continue Reading »

Varieties of Moral Personality by Owen Flanagan Harvard University Press, 336 pages, $34.95 In this challenging book, Owen Flanagan addresses a number of important and neglected connections between ethics and psychology. He begins with the suggestion that it is time for philosophers of the moral . . . . Continue Reading »