In attempting to evaluate the status of psychology [1], the American Psychological Association appointed Sigmund Koch to plan and direct a study which was subsidized by the National Science [2] Foundation.  This study involved eighty eminent scholars in assessing the facts, theories, and methods of psychology [1].  The results of this extensive endeavor were then published in a seven volume series entitled PSYCHOLOGY [1]: A STUDY OF A SCIENCE [2].  Koch describes the delusion from which we have been suffering in thinking about psychology [1] as a science [2]: “The hope of a psychological science [2] became indistinguishable from the fact of psychological science [2].  The entire subsequent history of psychology [1] can be seen as a ritualistic endeavor to emulate the forms of science [2] in order to sustain the delusion that it already is a science [2].”

Excerpted from Psychoheresy, Martin and Deidre Bobgan [3], Eastgate Publishers, 1987, p.28