The interest in human experience as the source of the understanding of man began vaguely in the eleventh century and, via sixteenth century humanism,

reached its peak in the psychoanalytic study of man. Although Freud's study of man's subjective experiences began within his mechanistic, Darwinian, 'objective' orientation, it resulted in liberation from scientism and thus in the establishment of twentieth century humanism in clinical psychiatry. In the past twenty-five years we have been witnessing a recession from this high point, the penalty for our mechanistic and organismic points of view resulting from world wars and global mass movements. Socialization and intellectualization of our attitudes toward man have led to a disindividualized concept of human personality.