EXPERIMENTAL psychology is able to say many interesting things about the human mind. Approaching the discipline in a light-hearted way, as this book does, can be no bad thing, but that is no excuse for being thoughtless about it.
One of the chief concerns of this survey is to banish any notion that Freud might be worthwhile. He has been discredited by “scientific scrutiny”, we are told, and in his stead we are offered a banquet of psychological schools, often several to a page, along with a great many statistics and descriptions of disorders: 19.4 per cent of us worry…
