Towards a Latter-day Saint Perspective in Psychology

In 1976, Elder Neal A. Maxwell gave a landmark address to a room full of Latter-day Saint behavioral scientists. In that address, he extended an invitation to set forth a distinctively Latter-day Saint perspective in psychology and declared that -- as covenant members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- we have an overriding loyalty to the kingdom and a unique mission to integrate the Gospel into everything that we do. Elder Maxwell said: "[I] suggest that the LDS behavioral scientists become more of a link and bridge between revealed truth and the world of scholarship. The LDS scholar has his citizenship in the kingdom, but carries his passport into the professional world -- not the other way around."