Psychology as Religion Quotes

“It certainly proved convenient that, just as western economies began to need consumers, there developed an ideology hostile to discipline, to obedience, and to the delaying of gratification.
Selfism's clear advocacy of experience now, and its rejection of inhibition or repression, was a boon to the advertising industry, which was finding that the returns on appeals to social status and product quality were diminishing.”
― Paul C. Vitz, Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship

“It certainly proved convenient to that, just as western economies began to need consumers, there developed an ideology hostile to discipline, to obedience, and to the delaying of gratification. Selfism's clear advocacy of experience now, and its rejection of inhibition or repression, was a boon to the advertising industry, which was finding that the returns on appeals to social status and product quality were diminishing.”
― Paul C. Vitz, Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship

“As we have lost our identity as members of traditional communities, [...] we have found new identities of sharing grievance.
We are now united by being victims of everything from racism and sexism to "looks-ism" and "size-ism" to being adult children of alcoholics. America has become one huge circle in which everyone is pointing the finger of blame at someone else.”
― Paul C. Vitz, Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship

“[P]sychology has become a religion: a secular cult of the self[, ...] an intensely held worldview, a philosophy of life or ideology.”
― Paul C. Vitz, Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship