08/10/2025

Psychology is not the steady, forward progression of science that everyone says it is. It’s a fact of the sociology of science that, when a theory becomes controversial, people don’t go through it with a fine-toothed comb, selecting out the good parts and the parts that just need a little revision, and throwing out the rest. The way the sociology of science goes, if they get you down, they’re taking you out. Out goes the good along with the bad. The critics become too enthusiastic and throw the baby out with the bathwater.

— Roman Gelperin, The Master Mind of the Self-Actualizing Person