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NOT long ago, Henry Murray (1962), in an address entitled, "The Personality and Career of Satan," gibed at psychologists for undertaking Satan's task of shattering man's faith in his own potentialities:Man is a computer, an animal, or an infant. His destiny is completely determined by genes, instincts, accidents, early conditioning and reinforcements, cultural and social forces. Love is a secondary drive based on hunger and oral sensations or a reaction formation to an innate underlying hate. . . . If we psychologists were all the time, consciously or unconsciously, intending out of malice to reduce the concept of human nature to its lowest common denominators . . . then we might have to admit that to this extent the Satanic spirit was alive within us [p. S3].Isidor Chein (1962), too, sides with the humanist against the scientist in psychology.among psychologists whose careers are devoted to the advancement of the science, the prevailing image of Man is that of an impotent reactor. ... He is implicitly viewed as robot .... The opening sentence of Ethical Standards of Psychologists is that, "the psychologist is committed to a belief in the dignity and worth of the individual human being." . . . But what kind of dignity can we attribute to a robot [p. 3]?

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