From Hans Eysenck’s views on humour, to the influence that LSD and flower
power had over R. D. Laing, to B. F. Skinner’s resentment at being blamed for
inspiring the cruel mental punishments portrayed in the film A Clockwork Orange,
David Cohen’s collection of interviews, Psychologists on Psychology (Routledge,
£40, ISBN 0 415 07214 X), is sure to satisfy the curiosity of any budding
student who ever wondered what made the great theorists tick.
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