pt. 1. Introduction: "Maurice Friedman's Philosophy of the human image: the foundation for his critique of contemporary psychology" / by Richard Stanton -- Philosophical anthropology and the image of the human -- A dialogical view of the person -- pt. 2. The "three forces" of contemporary psychology: a critique: Scientism: B.F. Skinner -- Psychologism: Sigmund Freud and Carl G. Jung -- Aiming at the self: the paradox of humanist psychology and the human potential movement -- pt. 3. Obscuring and revealing the human image in existential psychology and family psychiatry: Existential psychotherapy: Rollo May -- Phenomenology and existential analysis: Sartre, von Weizsäcker, Boss, and Binswanger -- The politics of dialogue: Ronald Laing -- The family's role in hiding the human image: pseudomutuality (Wynne) and parentification (Boszormenyi-Nagy) -- pt. 4. The human image as the hidden ground of psychology and literature: Psychology and literature -- Our age of anxiety -- Personal freedom and psychological compulsion -- Fathers and sons: the divided self -- The crisis of motives and the problematic of guilt -- Sex and love -- Shame, guilt, and existential trust -- pt. 5. Conclusion: Psychology and the hidden human image.