ABSTRACT
Over the past 50 years or so, the humanities and social sciences have been challenged by postmodernism, which gradually infiltrated psychology and is now a small but significant voice in the form of critical theory. This is generally opposed to science itself, emphasising subjectivity rather than objectivity, intuition rather than logic, and qualitative rather than quantitative methods. I consider the question of whether this is detrimental to the advancement of psychology, whether as a science or as a profession.
