Leslie Paul Thiele, Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of the Soul: A study in heroic individualism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. xiv + 233 pp. $12.95 (paper) $39.50 (cloth)
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 79 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-5061
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✦ Synopsis
REVIEWS 269 which they are after all only logical infantsthat they forget that the business of the psychiatrist is to prevent and cure. A little decent advice (for W. is intrinsically a very decent and eminently likeable person) would have prevented the family tragedy. And it is the children who suffer most.
Meyer, however, had seen in Watson's adultery the logical consequence of Watson's theories. To Titchener, Meyer had objected that science depends to some degree on what we define to be factual; Meyer had broadened the taking of case histories (he invented the "life chart"), and sought to free psychiatry from excessive classification. Meyer refused to separate "facts" from "values," yet his humanism led him, in Watson's case, to be intolerant. (Meyer also had lacked sympathy for W. I. Thomas's forced resignation in 1919 from the University of Chicago for sexual misconduct).
Defining American Psychology is a landmark in the field; it successfully revives both Meyer and Titchener, places their ideas in historical context, and hopefully prepares this whole area for further research.