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“... In the introduction to this autobiography Hans Eysenck approvingly quotes Oscar Wilde’s assertion that ‘modesty is the worst kind of vanity.’ Accordingly, Eysenck unapologetically laces his book with facts and figures to demonstrate that he is, as his publisher’s publicity has it, ‘Britain’s most-read and best-known psychologist ...”

“... project. And into this world of spirit and subterfuge, we are astonished to discover, Professor Hans Eysenck of the Institute of Psychiatry is bold enough to enter. In fact, Eysenck has been interested in the psychic end of things for most of his career. That career, beginning with his departure from Germany in the ...”

“... sally might begin, ‘I know it’s unfashionable to say this’ and go on to propose that, say, Hans Eysenck was on to something. Someone would lift a riskily brimming bumper and cry, ‘Down with Oxfam!’ Someone else might recommend a piece of samizdat from Encounter. And so the afternoon wore on agreeably enough, with daring satirical calls for ...”

“... dead.’ Seven scholars thrashing a half-dead horse: it’s enough to make readers of ‘Little Hans’ fear for their widdlers. Yet Ellmann’s lecture, once it breaks loose, is elegant and perceptive. L’ Idiot de la Famille is his foil. Tactfully, but firmly, he uses Sartre’s Flaubert to suggest that while every biography operates within psychological ...”