Science, particularly as in the research psychology journals, offers no help for solving interpersonal difficulties. It is art, and especially literature, where help is to be found. E. M. Forster speaks from experience:
I am a little doubtful perhaps about your application of ‘psychology’ to your difficulties, though your psychology is of course better than other people’s. Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong - I refrain from adding in booming tones, ‘and always will be’, but it is certainly always just wrong at present. . . . Art is a better guide than Science. (Quoted from The Life of the Creative Spirit, p. 272.)
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For a brief biography of E. M. Forster, click here.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/forster.htm
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