Wilhelm Wundt, Wikimedia Commons

Wilhelm Wundt, Wikimedia Commons

“Wilhelm Wundt — often regarded as the “father of psychology” — separated psychology from philosophy,” says Selwyn Duke in a New American article. Wundt removed the concept of psyche – spirit or soul – from psychology. “This decoupling of philosophy and psychology to create a new ‘science’  has, ironically, birthed a field that disgorges both bad philosophy and bad science. … Its physician arm, psychiatry, was responsible for 50,000 cases of the brain mutilation known as lobotomy in the United States alone, not to mention all the excessive use of extreme electroconvulsive therapy.”