Paul C. Vitz is Professor of Psychology Emeritus at New York University and recently Senior Scholar Emeritus at Divine Mercy University. His work has focused on integrating Christian theology, especially Catholic anthropology, with psychology. He is the author of Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship 2nd ed.; Sigmund Freud's Christian Unconscious; Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism, 2nd ed.; and The Self: Beyond the Post-modern Crisis.

Paul Vitz is an internationally recognized psychologist and speaker, whose work on more abstract notions has evolved to concrete language and advice pertaining to human communication and relations. His books have been widely read and he continues to lecture and speak on this topic, and has appeared in most major publications that deal with faith and culture, as well as many non-affiliated psychology magazines and journals.