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Vitz criticizes [[liberalism]] and believes there is a link between fatherlessness and atheism, as he demonstrates in his book ''Faith of the Fatherless, the Psychology of [[Atheism]]''. In his book ''Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self Worship'' he contends that Psychology, based on current theories and practice, is often times damaging. By a series of 'blaming' incidents for childhood experiences and 'trauma', people have victimhood placed upon them and therefore become victims.<ref>http://www.articlecity.com/articles/religion/article_323.shtml</ref> In ''Censorship: Evidence of bias in our children's textbooks'' (1986) Vitz shows how "a widespread secular and liberal mindset" within the professional education community has resulted in the removal of conservative religious, family, and economic views from children's textbooks<ref> ''Library Journal'', Patricia Smith Butcher, 1987 </ref>.
Vitz criticizes [[liberalism]] and believes there is a link between fatherlessness and atheism, as he demonstrates in his book ''Faith of the Fatherless, the Psychology of [[Atheism]]''. In his book ''Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self Worship'' he contends that Psychology, based on current theories and practice, is often times damaging. By a series of 'blaming' incidents for childhood experiences and 'trauma', people have victimhood placed upon them and therefore become victims.<ref>http://www.articlecity.com/articles/religion/article_323.shtml</ref> In ''Censorship: Evidence of bias in our children's textbooks'' (1986) Vitz shows how "a widespread secular and liberal mindset" within the professional education community has resulted in the removal of conservative religious, family, and economic views from children's textbooks<ref> ''Library Journal'', Patricia Smith Butcher, 1987 </ref>.
==Vitz and Creativity==
Vitz has argued that the academic idea of creativity since the 19th century is completely wrong. Instead Vitz suggests a different definition of creativity<ref> [http://books.google.com/books?id=dl77RyqE4RgC ''Psychology As Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship''] (Wm. B. Eerdmans 1977), p. 63</ref>
{{cquote|For a Christian, however, all creativity has its origin in God; and to claim that an individual human is really creative is either silly or blasphemous. A person can express his ividvidual capacity in a creative fashion only by aligning himself with God's will. Real creativity requires a soul cooperating with God— a soul who becomes God's loving agent in all its activity however mundane.}}
==Works==
==Works==
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=dl77RyqE4RgC ''Psychology As Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship''] (Wm. B. Eerdmans 1977, 1994 2nd Ed.)
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=dl77RyqE4RgC ''Psychology As Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship''] (Wm. B. Eerdmans 1977, 1994 2nd Ed.)