Young Man Luther

Psychologists should never be trusted solely as historians. They are psychologists who are meant to be professionals who apply psychological research, theories and techniques to "real-world" problems, questions and issues, most typically in health and mental health care services, or in business and industry. They are not meant to double as historians who, concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race, are the real ones who study and write about historic events and the ones to be considered the real authority over such events. Regardless, Erik Erikson, famous developmental psychologist and psychoanalysit attempts to take on this double role as a psychologist/historian in his book, Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History. In it, he applies his insights on human development, identiy crisis and moratorium to bear on the prominent figure of the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther.



Go Metropolitan Seminar. Putting my Psych minor to good use!

So cool. :)