Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self-worship

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A trenchant analysis of modern physchologyan enterprise that Paul Vitz maintains has become a religion a secular cult of self now part of the problem of modern life rather than part of its resolution. Virtually rewritten this second edition of the original 1977 text takes into account much of what has happened in the field of psychology during the past seventeen years. Two completely new chapters are also includedone on education and "values clarification" and the other on New Age religion. By Dr. Paul C. Vitz. Paul C. Vitz Ph.D. (Stanford University 1962) is Professor of Psychology Department of Psychology New York University and Adjunct Professor John Paul 11 Institute for Marriage and Family Washington D.C. He is a member of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars and is in active contact with many Evangelical Protestants e.g. Inter Varsity and several