Psychological Terms
Sir, —Your excellent leading article welcoming the opening of the new laboratory of the Consumers’ Institute is the more creditable when one remembers the reliance of on advertising. Your lay use of the word “subjective” was quite justified in the context, and hardly warranted the long article from Dr. Gregson to explain a subtle point, particularly as the world “psychology” is counterfeited almost daily in every paper and magazine without a murmur from him. I have no objection to the use of the word “psychological” to describe political deceit and terror in warfare or as a synonym for “opportune,” but on the subject of mental health, on which anybody is liable to express “expert” opinion every day of the week, technical terms should retain their precise meanings. —Yours, etc., VARIAN J. WILSON. April 20, 1966.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31041, 22 April 1966, Page 10
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