Paul Vitz
Paul Vitz is a Psychology professor at New York University. He graduated with a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1957 and with a Ph.D in Psychology fromStanford University in 1962. An atheist until he was in his late 30s, he is now a practicing Roman Catholic.[1] His focus is on the connection between Christianity and Psychology.[2] He is a member of the fellowship of Catholic Scholars, but also has strong contact to Evangelical Protestant organizations and deeply religious Jews.[3]
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.[4] In Censorship: Evidence of bias in our children's textbooks (1986) "a widespread secular and liberal mindset" within the American grade school is blamed for an increasing lack of conservative religion, family, and economic views in textbooks.
Works
- Psychology As Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship (Wm. B. Eerdmans 1977, 1994 2nd Ed.)
- Modern Art and Modern Science: The Parallel Analysis of Vision, authored with Arnold B. Glimcher (Praeger, 1984)
- Sigmund Freud's Christian Unconscious, Paul C. Vitz (Guilford Press, 1988)
- Censorship: Evidence of Bias in Our Children's Textbooks (Servant Books, 1986)
- Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism (Spence Publishing Company, 1999)
- The Self: Beyond the Postmodern Crisis, edited with Susan M. Felch (ISI Books, 2006)