Paul Clayton Vitz (born August 27, 1935) is an American psychologist who is a Senior Scholar at Divine Mercy University in Sterling, Virginia.
His research was focused on perceptual and cognitive psychology, especially sequential pattern learning and visual form perception and preferred levels of stimulus complexity.
In the early 1980s Vitz was involved in the national controversy over neglect of religion, especially Christianity in public school textbooks.
This book provides much historical and biographical evidence for Freud's deep and lifelong involvement with and ambivalence toward Christianity, especially Catholicism.
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.