This is the life story of the oldest living member of the famous Wertheimer family beautifully
narrated and richly illustrated from the author's vast stock of memorabilia and his unfailing
memory. It is a memoir but at the same time a document of the exodus of German-speaking
psychologists to the New World which left the homeland scientifically shattered. This
lovingly-written pictorial archive of 80 years of the history of modern psychology shaped by
the momentous events of WWII belongs on the shelf of every psychologist theoretical
experimental and clinical as it gives us the story of how the scientific heritage in Europe
and America merged to form the broad and strong disciplines now in our hands told by one of
its premier historical representatives. Prof. em. Lothar Spillmann University of Freiburg
Germany
