Why psychology is evil, Part 2

| September 13, 2010

Review of Rebecca Lemov, World as Laboratory, New York: Hill and Wang, 2005. Around 1915 the public came to believe in Freud’s concept of the subconscious mind and a need for self-analysis. This false belief led to a search for a control mechanism to mediate the flood of subconscious impulses (unconscious sex and aggression drives) […]

Why psychology is evil, Part 1

| September 9, 2010

Review of Rebecca Lemov, World as Laboratory, New York: Hill and Wang, 2005. Social engineering was funded by Rockefeller grants of several billion dollars (in today’s money) beginning in the 1920s. Beardsley Ruml articulated the vision of joining the various social sciences into a results-oriented synthesis for population control. Out of these experiments came the […]