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THE opinions of a distinguished psychiatrist upon the relations of psychology and religion are of great interest and importance. Dr. Forsyth's views are quite definite: religion and science, whether psychological or other, are quite incompatible with one another, because they involve two entirely different points of view. Religion is based on ‘pleasure thinking’, that is, on fantasy, while science is based on ‘reality thinking’. Religion in short is concerned with illusions and not with reality, and belongs, properly speaking, to the infancy of our race, and not to its maturity, and so ‘should be superseded in the present stage of civilisation’.
Psychology and Religion:
a Study by a Medical Psychologist. By Dr. David Forsyth. Pp. ix + 221. (London: Watts and Co., 1935.) 7s. 6d. net.
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H., J. Non-Religion of the Future. Nature 136, 582 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136582a0
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