Prescott lecky's concept of resistance and his personality

Abstract

Prescott Lecky was an academic psychologist who pioneered in a psychology and psychotherapy of the self during the 1920s when American academic psychology was almost completely behavioristic and experimental. Specifically, Lecky stressed the proce, s of resistance as an individual's device for maintaining the consistency and integrity of his self-concept. The present paper shows from biographical d Lta, especially an early recollection, that resistance was powerful factor in Lecky's own personality. His theory thus may be seen in part as an attempt to cope with a potential difficulty with which he was well familiar. But, one may infer, he failed in his own case: Resistance impeded Lecky from publishing, and even attaining his Ph. D., and thus rendered his life quite tragic. This is offered as a further example of Adler's and Ellenberger's contentions that a psychologist's theory is generally in accord with his personality or style of life.

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