ABSTRACT
Glen Slater’s description of the phenomena and the overall picture that emerges from his compilation and discussion, the picture of a major development in stark opposition to the situation that early 20th century psychologists were confronted with, are accurate. Feeling in the psychological sense is a rational function, a “judgment of taste”, and thus must not be confused with our having feelings, with our emotions, with sentimentality, with our subjective likings or antipathies, all of which are merely psychic events and not psychological. For a psychologist or psychotherapist, to be confronted with a patient’s presenting complaint is nothing unusual, and the fact that this complaint is about things that are thoroughly pathological and wrong, sad and possibly destructive, sometimes horrid, is nothing shocking for him, but rather his daily bread. Psychology is not an abstractly existing reality that could on account of adverse circumstances cease to exist.
