ABSTRACT
Liam Hudson is a very likeable psychologist. He has an engaging smile and he seems ready to be very open and frank without waxing pretentious about how vital it is for you and he to relate, interrelate and communicate. Liam Hudson loved the philosophy part of the course although he was not particularly good at it. He describes graphically how it felt when he first saw an article of his published. Scientists are really not like authors: they are often possessive of their research but it is harder perhaps, to justify possessiveness. Hudson stresses we need to use psychology also to make sense of individual biographies. It all shows his pleasure in argument, as McClelland might argue; on the other hand, the points are important and do have to be argued. Hudson reminds one of McClelland's emphasis that psychologists are high in power motivation, liking to have both an impact and an influence on what people do.
