Abstract :
This autobiography contains some of the clinical and research highlights of my career in the context
of my personal odyssey and my appreciation of science as a potential check on political and
economic forces in psychology. Typically,my research arose from clinical problems encountered
at work and from my disinclination to rely on methods that lacked prior demonstrated validity for
the type of problem and client in question. Otherwise, I feared my recommendations were no
better than those based on common prejudices and biases, which I encountered throughout my
work life as a dark-skinned, outspoken, non-Christian from the Bronx.
