Max Wertheimer taught psychology at The New School. You can read more about him here.

Solomon Asch taught in the New School’s Psychology Department in the 1940’s. You can read more about him here.

Arien Mack has been a professor of psychology at the New School for Social Research since 1970, and still teaches today in the Adult Bachelor’s division. You can read more about her here.

It is reasonable to suppose that , when an individual is responding to a situation, his various judgments concerning it do not exist independently for him, but that they affect each other.

Over the last several decades there has been a growing wave of concern over the use and abuse of mind-altering substances that has left in its wake increasingly large expenditures for what is familiarly called the "War on Drugs," despite the simultaneously ever-expanding body of evide

In 1946, Solomon Asch wrote that the "thinking of Max Wertheimer has penetrated into nearly every region of psychological inquiry and has left a permanent impress on the minds of psychologists and on their daily work.

Psychology as the behaviorist views it is a purely objective experimental branch of natural science. Its theoretical goal is the prediction and control of behavior.

Cognitive dissonance is a motivating state of affairs. Just as hunger impels a person to eat, so does dissonance impel a person to change his opinions or his behavior. The world, however, is much more effectively arranged for hunger reduction than it is for dissonance reduction.

Man's character has been molded by the demands of the world he has built with his own hands. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the social character of the middle class showed strong exploitative and hoarding traits.

To be sure, an adequate understanding of any purposely employed method includes an understanding of what the one using the method sets up as the thing to be actualized by its means.

The Human Relations Center began in 1951 at the behest of Clara Mayer, the infamous right-hand woman of Alvin Johnson, the long-time director of the school.

Leon Festinger (1919-1989) was an American social psychologist, known for his cognitive dissonance and social comparison theories. He taught at the New School from 1968-1989.

John Watson (1878-1958) is remembered today as the flamboyant founder and promoter of behaviorist psychology.

Karen Horney taught psychology at The New School. You can read more about her here.

Mary Henle was a professor of psychology at the New School and the last surviving second-generation Gestalt theorist. Her accomplished career belies the restrictions women generally faced during the same period in the field of psychology.

Dorion Cairns (1901- 1973) was apart of the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in the 1950’s.

Erich Fromm was a German-American social psychologist and psychoanalyst, who was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. His work challenged the theories of Sigmund Freud, [1] and brought psychoanalysis to bear on sociological and political questions.

In the ultimate sense of education and of culture, there can be no conflicts.

Rachel Blau DuPlessis and I, old friends from the Women’s Liberation Movement, discovered in the late eighties a shared indignation – and grief. The books about the sixties were beginning to come out.

The purpose of this paper is to try to set the historical record straight while the history in question is still in the making. lt seeks to clarify the relations between gestalt therapy and Gestalt psychology, from which the therapy claims to derive.

In the psychoanalytic concept of neuroses a shift of emphasis has taken place: whereas originally interest was focused on the dramatic symptomatic picture, it is now being realized more and more that the real source of these psychic disorders lies in character disturbances, that the s

Most Americans believe that our society of consumption-happy, fun-loving, jet-traveling people creates the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

The value of psychoanalysis is discussed in understanding moral, religious, political ideals and doctrines.

When we speak of a science, we have in mind a logically body of knowledge that has resulted from certain methods attacking the problems presented by a particular subject.

We look at a person and immediately a certain impression of his character forms itself in us. A glance, a few spoken words are sufficient to tell us a story about a highly complex matter. We know that such impressions form with remarkable rapidity and with great ease.