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Reviving person-centered inquiry in psychology

why it's erstwhile dormancy?

James T. Lamiell

pp. 31-43

Just a few short years ago one of the co-editors of this volume published an article in the journal Measurement under the title: "A Manifesto on Psychology as Idiographic Science: Bringing the Person Back Into Scientific Psychology, This Time Forever" (Molenaar, 2004). To one who himself has long advocated just such a development, this bold manifesto was most welcome indeed. But the very claim to lately be bringing the person back into scientific psychology begs the questions: why has this proved necessary? and: where had the person been for all of those previous years?

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-95922-1_2

Full citation:

Lamiell, J. T. (2009)., Reviving person-centered inquiry in psychology: why it's erstwhile dormancy?, in J. Valsiner, P. C. Molenaar, M. C. Lyra & N. Chaudhary (eds.), Dynamic process methodology in the social and developmental sciences, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 31-43.

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