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Henry A. Murray: Personology

Personology is the science of people. It is used to interpret and organize the lives of humans. The central ideas of the science must be to "understanding of what we mean by the concept "person," and for development of methods of understanding the lives of persons as the "long unit for psychology"" (Barresi & Juckes 1988 pg 1). It is important to take accounts when studying personology from first person perspective instead of a third person perspective. Henry A. Murray believed that personality psychology had to deal with the life course of person and came up with the word "personology" (Barresi & Juckes 1988). He developed the phrase because he felt that personality psychology was an "unwieldy" phrase. Personology means the study of "single, complex, lived lives over time, from a variety of different angles" ("Psychobiography: Personality").
Henry A. Murray was born in New York City in 1893 to a wealthy family with and older sister and younger......

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