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Abstract
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It has long been a truism of psychology that it did not concern itself with establishing norms of conduct, but it has been increasingly true that the recent developments in applied psychology, especially in the fields of abnormal and social psychology, have afforded data which have been readily converted into argu- ment for or against certain kinds of conduct. Henceforth it will be hard for any psychologist to evade the demand that his school of psychology shall be full}' interpreted in relation to the problem of finding new sanctions for conduct. The demand of the psychoanalyst that his patient shall face reality is beginning to apply with special force to the subject of psychology itself. For the most real problem of psychology is becoming that of pointing the way by which an individual may better his behavior. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)
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