| Summary: | "Consistent with the central postulate of this book that personality is an integrated, unified whole which can be dealt with validly only in terms of what it is globally, this book gives no special attention to part functions which more properly are in the domain of general psychology. Part functions will be referred to phenomenally only in terms of what they contribute to any state of personality organization. Our primary concern will be the raw data, clinically studied and evaluated, of what the whole person is and what he is doing. While analytic and elementaristic approaches may be very important in experimental-statistical psychology which is interested in discovering the composition of data in their nature and determination, the clinical approach is primarily concerned with the synthesizing and holistic approach to what the whole personality is and is becoming. We believe that anything else from this is not personality study and should not be confused with such. We would insist that much which has been labelled as personality study in the past, is not personality study at all because it does not deal with the whole phenomenon of what a person is and is becoming. Similarly, much of what has been called psychology is not psychology at all but should be more validly designated as behavior zoology or behavior physiology"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).
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