approaches, e.g. Kohlberg, and an emphasis on stories. See "The use of stories in moral development: New psychological reasons for an old education method", Amer. Psychologist, 1990. In the 1980s and especially in the 90's his work turned to personality theory and Christianity and to the psychological importance of fathers. The latter culminated in a book on what Vitz claims are the psychological factors which produce atheism, "Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism", 1999 and a 2nd ed. in 2013. He has made basic contributions as an editor to "A Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person", 2020 and to "The Complementarity of Women and Men", 2021. He is presently working on the origin of human consciousness, the relevance of the soul for psychology, and on the consequences of analog and digital coding. At New York University he was promoted to full Professor and he retired from there in 2003 as Professor Emeritus. He is now Senior Scholar/Professor in the Institute for the Psychological Sciences, Divine Mercy University. Personal life Vitz is married to Evelyn Birge Vitz, a Professor of French at New York University specializing in medieval studies and in the performance of medieval and other narrative works. They had six children and now twenty-three grandchildren. Publications Vitz, Paul C. (2017). The origin of consciousness in the integration of analog (right hemisphere) & digital (left hemisphere) codes. Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research, 8(11), pp. 881–906. Vitz, Paul C., Nordling W. J., & Titus, C.S. (Eds.) (2020). A Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person: Integration with psychology and mental health practice. Sterling, VA: Divine Mercy University Press. (Expanded Reason Award, 2020. Benedict XVI Foundation, Rome.) Vitz, Paul C. (Ed.) (2021). The complementarity of women and men: Philosophy, theology, psychology and art. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. See also Postmodern psychology References 1935 births American male non-fiction writers 20th-century American psychologists American psychology writers Converts to Roman Catholicism from atheism or agnosticism Living people New York University faculty Pomona College faculty Psychologists of religion Roman Catholic scholars Stanford University alumni University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni Writers from Ohio Freudians