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It is exactly one hundred years since Wundt founded the first laboratory at the University of Leipzig in an attempt to establish experimental psychology as a separate field of scientific enquiry. Five years ago, fired with enthusiasm, I enrolled for a degree in Experimental Psychology. I felt that this was a pioneering subject which was exploring new ways of examining the components which make up the individual. Two years ago, disillusioned, I obtained my degree and have since found it to be virtually worthless. Psychology has become the laughing‐stock of the social sciences, and unless a radical change is made in the assumptions underlying its research, it would seem that within fifty years it will be an obsolete subject.