SOURCE: Taylor, Eugene. “The Appearance of Swedenborg in the History of American Psychology.” In Swedenborg and His Influence, edited by Erland J. Brock et al., pp. 155-76. Bryn Athyn, Penn.: Academy of the New Church, 1988.
In this essay, Taylor discusses Swedenborg's ideas about psychology and his influence on American psychiatry, philosophical psychology, Jungian psychology, personality-social psychology, and humanistic psychology, arguing that Swedenborg's thought contains the germ of the idea that psychiatry and psychology can be central to the transformation of the social and medical sciences.
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