Twentieth Century Psychology: Edited by Philip Lawrence Harriman, with the assistance of G. L. Freeman, G. W. Hartmann, Kurt Lewin, A. H. Maslow, and C. E. Skinner. New York: The Philosophical Library, 1946. 712 pp.

This book comprises thirty-nine articles by representative psychologists in a broad variety of fields. D. B. Klein starts with an article, Psychology's Progress and the Armchair Taboo, which pleads for the 'armchair' empiricism of William James and Freud in psychology. Freud is referred to as nonexperimental, despite the fact that Freud's work is based on experiments and observation in the medical consulting room.

David Boder's article on Nazi Science demonstrates how Jaensch, the German psychologist, worked out a theory of personality characterized by an Anti-Type, in order to prove that Jews and certain Germans belong to this category and are dangerous to the state, an example of the way in which psychological data can be distorted for political purposes.

A. H. Maslow, in A Theory of Human Motivations, enumerates five basic goals of the human organism: physiological needs, safety, love, esteem, and self-satisfaction. The author does not distinguish clearly between unconscious and conscious drives, and he equates physiological and psychological needs. He states: 'The perfectly healthy, normal, fortunate man has no sex needs or hunger needs, or needs for safety, or for love, or for prestige, or self-esteem, except in stray moments of quickly passing threat'.