Psychology in the Media: Social Psychologist Targets Psychology Departments for Reforms

February 4, 2005 (Press Release) -- Social psychologist Wyatt Ehrenfels wants to set the record straight about the psychology careers available to graduates, about the hidden odds & obstacles to admission to psychology doctoral programs, about the highly effective habits of those who survive graduate school, and about the ways in which psychology's science of dreaming fails both science and dreams.

All this information (and much more) is available in just a handful of reports:

http://www.fireflySun.com/news.html

Psychology Careers
http://www.fireflySun.com/book/careers_in_psychology.php

The Psychology Major
http://www.fireflySun.com/book/psychology_major_career.php

Surviving a Psychology Doctoral Program
http://www.fireflySun.com/book/graduate_school_in_psychology.php

Strategies & Tactics for Admission to Graduate School in Psychology
http://www.fireflySun.com/book/IVSelection.php

Psychology's Dream Science Fails Both Dreaming & Science
http://www.fireflySun.com/book/Psychology_Fails_Dreams_and_Dreaming.php

Modern Psychotherapy Loses Touch with Sources of Theory, Science
http://www.fireflySun.com/book/modern psychotherapy psychological thought.php

Evolutionary Psychology: Using Natural Selection to Explain the Evolution of Psychology Departments
http://www.fireflySun.com/book/Evolution_of_Psychology.php

Use of Science in Psychology Deemed Cosmetic, ADHD
http://www.fireflySun.com/book/Science of Psychology Is ADHD.php

Counterfeit Freedom: Psychology Professors Use Superficial Diversity to Conceal Oppression of Ideas
http://www.fireflySun.com/book/psychology_professor_skindeep.php

Alliance members detailed policies and procedures which, despite a ritual imitation of cosmetic features of other sciences, have less standing in science than in social necessity, expediency, and control. A massive network of arbitrary and superfluous requirements alienates researchers from phenomena under study by compelling them to surrender their wits and freedoms in exchange for membership in a community and access to its one-size-fits-all sources of guidance, validation, and identity. "The SOPs behave like prejudices. They bureaucratize knowledge production, suppress a natural diversity of ideas, and apply rules inconsistently to censor or censure those who mesh least with the status quo. Though their fingerprints are everywhere, their distortion and neglect is most obvious on a natural phenomenon like dreaming," Ehrenfels said today to his growing coalition of critics.