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Had the social construction of psychological science been different in the 1950s and 1960s there would have been no need for a separate discipline of descriptive psychology. However, in fact there was such a need and in fact descriptive psychology was evolved. The present chapter is in part a summary recounting of how it came about and in part an account of the general character and systematic development of descriptive psychology.
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Ossorio, P.G. (1985). An Overview of Descriptive Psychology. In: Gergen, K.J., Davis, K.E. (eds) The Social Construction of the Person. Springer Series in Social Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5076-0_2
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