{"id":1390,"date":"2006-02-09T00:30:40","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T08:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/02\/09\/the-appeal-of-psychology\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:44:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:44:54","slug":"the-appeal-of-psychology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/02\/09\/the-appeal-of-psychology\/","title":{"rendered":"The Appeal of Psychology"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of &#8220;spirit&#8221; over matter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Susan Sontag<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of &#8220;spirit&#8221; over matter. &#8211;Susan Sontag<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-quotes","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12337,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/12337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}