"...tells a story about psychology in The Netherlands that is as fascinating for the color with which it paints individuals as it is thoughtful about the use of sociological concepts to explain change in science. The book has analytic as well as narrative purposes and is a model for the integration of description and analysis....Trudy Dehue has added a new dimension to the history of 20th-century psychology. She has carefully shown how the social construction of scientific methodologies actually occurs, and she has written with humor, penetration, and sensitivity about her world, a world in which we are all reflected. This is a book for anyone interested in psychology as a social activity." Roger Smith, Contemporary Psychology

• Preface; 1. The variability of methodological standards in the social sciences; 2. Handwriting and character; 3. Like everything living which encounters us; 4. The neurotic paradox of clinical psychology; 5. Predictions; Epilogue: social and rational rules.

"...tells a story about psychology in The Netherlands that is as fascinating for the color with which it paints individuals as it is thoughtful about the use of sociological concepts to explain change in science. The book has analytic as well as narrative purposes and is a model for the integration of description and analysis....Trudy Dehue has added a new dimension to the history of 20th-century psychology. She has carefully shown how the social construction of scientific methodologies actually occurs, and she has written with humor, penetration, and sensitivity about her world, a world in which we are all reflected. This is a book for anyone interested in psychology as a social activity." Roger Smith, Contemporary Psychology

• Preface; 1. The variability of methodological standards in the social sciences; 2. Handwriting and character; 3. Like everything living which encounters us; 4. The neurotic paradox of clinical psychology; 5. Predictions; Epilogue: social and rational rules.

"...tells a story about psychology in The Netherlands that is as fascinating for the color with which it paints individuals as it is thoughtful about the use of sociological concepts to explain change in science. The book has analytic as well as narrative purposes and is a model for the integration of description and analysis....Trudy Dehue has added a new dimension to the history of 20th-century psychology. She has carefully shown how the social construction of scientific methodologies actually occurs, and she has written with humor, penetration, and sensitivity about her world, a world in which we are all reflected. This is a book for anyone interested in psychology as a social activity." Roger Smith, Contemporary Psychology

• Preface; 1. The variability of methodological standards in the social sciences; 2. Handwriting and character; 3. Like everything living which encounters us; 4. The neurotic paradox of clinical psychology; 5. Predictions; Epilogue: social and rational rules.