He described Jesus as an "adolescent superman" in his work Jesus, the Christ, in the Light of Psychology.
He described Jesus as an "adolescent superman" in his work Jesus, the Christ, in the Light of Psychology. He was inspired by Haeckel to formulate a theory of recapitulation which holds that child development mirrors the history of mankind, a view he put forth in a work which was criticized by Thorndike as "chock full of errors, masturbation and Jesus." At age 78 he published the first large-scale study of the psychological issues of old age, Senescence, which was a follow-up to his earlier Adolescence. He earned the U.S.'s first PhD in psychology, and founded the US's first psychology lab and journal. For 10 points, name this man who invited Jung and Freud to give lecture series in 1909 while serving as first president of Clark University, and who organized and served as first president of the American Psychological Association.
He described Jesus as an "adolescent superman" in his work Jesus, the Christ, in the Light of Psychology.
Granville Stanley {Hall}