Seventeen Years Later: Clinical Psychology in the Light of the I947 CTCP Report [1965]

Psychology is admittedly an extremely difficult field; it has so many special burdens to bear. Rather than being a science, psychology is only becoming a science. Because of this developmental state and because of the nature of its phenomena, psychology depends on other disciplines for many of its advances; it so easily becomes bound up in metaphysical questions, and it has such trouble describing and measuring its variables with exactness. In addition, psychology is pestered above all other fields by amateur experts-for is not every man a psychologist?