Beyond individual and group differences: human individuality, scientific psychology, and William Stern's critical personalism

Introduction: A Lost Star Part I: Historical Beginnings 2. The Problem of Individuality & the Birth of a Differential Psychology 3. The Narrowing of Perspective in the Proliferation of Standardized Testing & Correlational Research 4. The Entrenchment of a Common Trait Perspective on Human Individuality Part II: Statistical Thinking in the Post-Wundtian Restructuring of Scientific Psychology 5. The Emergence of a Framework for Psychological Research: An Historical Sketch 6. Contemporary Nomotheticism within the Framework of Neo-Galtonian Inquiry: A Methodological Primer 7. Contemporary Nomotheticism in Critical Perspective Part III: Rethinking the Problem 8. An Introduction to Critical Personalism 9. Some Models of Personalistic Inquiry in Contemporary Psychology 10. Our Differences Aside: Persons, Things, Individuality, & Community References Name Index Subject Index