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ERIC Number: EJ775369
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2003-Nov
Pages: 13
Abstractor: Author
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ISSN: ISSN-0003-066X
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It's time to Rework the Blueprints: Building a Science for Clinical Psychology
Millon, Theodore
American Psychologist, v58 n11 p949-961 Nov 2003
The aims in this article are to connect the conceptual structure of clinical psychological science to what the author believes to be the omnipresent principles of evolution, use the evolutionary model to create a deductively derived clinical theory and taxonomy, link the theory and taxonomy to comprehensive and integrated approaches to assessment, and outline a framework for an integrative synergistic model of psychotherapy. These foundations also provide a framework for a systematic approach to the subject realms of personology and psychopathology. Exploring nature's deep principles, the model revives the personologic concept christened by Henry Murray some 65 years ago; it also parallels the interface between human social functioning and evolutionary biology proposed by Edward Wilson in his concept of sociobiology.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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