Calum Neill’s book Ethics and Psychology Beyond Codes of Practice questions the validity of psychology in the 21st century, arguing that it needs to reinvent itself. The author examines the complex relationship between ethics and psychology, showing how the discipline’s pursuit of scientific status can negatively impact understanding of what it means to be human. Using examples such as the Milgram and Zimbardo experiments, Neill explores the search for a universal ethics, but reveals the difficulties and inconsistencies inherent in this search. He criticizes the idea that ethics can be based on nature or reason, questioning the universality of reason and the limits of morality. The book proposes that true ethics resides in experience and expression, and that psychology, to be relevant, needs to connect with the subjective experience and creative potential of the human being.